The Demographic Impact of the Extractive Industry Development in Interwar Romania

Abstract

The paper sets out to perform an analysis of the Romanian extractive industry in the interwar period, identifying it as an important component of the broader industrial sector and one of the main elements behind economic development. Also, we study how the evolution of the extractive industry created poles of workforce attraction and therefore becoming a local driver of demographic change.
Keywords: Interwar Romanian economy, Industry, Extractive industry, Demographic change.