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Moreover, only 43% of the organizations that were surveyed have specific measures in place to support women’s careers in public health, despite the overwhelmingly female composition of the health
workforce.
Those who stay in school end up marrying much later, perhaps in their early to mid-twenties, entering the workforce, and having 2-3 children.
There are many policy suggestions to address fiscal sustainability and
workforce
shortages already under consideration, including higher retirement ages and mandatory contributions, together with lower benefits.
Farming, fishing, and forestry now account for less that 2% of the total economy and less than 4% of the
workforce.
The first has fallen away, its accompanying social structures superseded by industrialization, urbanization, and feminization of the workforce, while the oft-seen link with despotism has delegitimized the second.
As foreign firms launch operations in the labor-intensive sectors in which Africa has a comparative advantage, they will train the local
workforce.
As such, governments should start treating them as a segment of the workforce, rather than as a burden on public spending and economic growth.
That, however, is where the certainty ends: the Trump administration has so far offered few, if any, signals about how it will approach the issue of supporting adaptation by the
workforce.
And now policymakers must also devote more attention to the health-care
workforce
itself, to ensure that it is properly educated and trained for the challenges that await the region.
Everything we extract, grow, design, build, make, engineer, and transport – down to brewing a cup of coffee in a restaurant kitchen and carrying it to a customer's table – is done by roughly 30% of the country's
workforce.
The pickup in global growth is likely to be a catalyst for change, creating incentives for firms to invest and introduce new technologies, some of which will substitute for labor, offsetting the slowdown in the growth of the
workforce.
Since the euro was established in 1999, Germany’s productivity growth has been no more than average among European countries, real wages have declined for half the workforce, and annual GDP growth has averaged a disappointing 1.2%.
With fewer children to replenish the workforce, the working-age cohort of those 15-64 years old would shrink from 68.4% to 60.7%.
With a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, tax revenue will contract, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the fiscal position.
Given the current composition of India’s workforce, the potential of the demographic dividend is such that low-skill, labor-intensive manufacturing should be vigorously pursued.
More than half of Foshan’s population and two-thirds of its
workforce
are migrants, who have access to the same social services as locals, owing to reforms in vocational training, health care, housing, and social security.
And there is no reason to believe that politicians’ all-purpose answer to the problem – “increase
workforce
skills” – will offset this tendency.
If Latin America’s companies are to compete effectively with those based in developed or emerging economies, the region must urgently remedy this, by raising the skill level of its
workforce.
In fact, this may come just in time – an aging population in developed economies implies a smaller
workforce
– and greater need for personal care services – in the coming decades.
At the McKinsey Global Institute, we have identified 11 sets of measures that, if enacted across Europe, would boost productivity, mobilize the workforce, and make investment – bets on the future – attractive again.
Here, Sweden – which links the retirement age to life expectancy, thereby expanding a productive “silver”
workforce
– shows the way.
Japan’s leaders must also work to expand the workforce, which faces severe constraints, owing largely to the country’s rapidly aging population.
Ireland, after all, is a tiny, highly open economy whose booming export sector is benefiting from existing strengths – including low business taxes, a skilled workforce, and a flexible economy – and favorable external conditions, especially the strong recovery in its main markets, the US and Britain.
Slower economic growth will cause a shortfall of jobs for new entrants to the workforce, thereby increasing the incidence of poverty.
This means shedding some four million workers, a number equal to about 0.5% of China’s
workforce.
The move was politically successful for the ruling party but economically devastating, causing massive disruptions to the Indian economy and upending the informal sector, which employs some 81% of the country’s
workforce.
The trouble is that even as these sites provide new opportunities for workers and companies, they are bypassing the traditional channels through which the US and many countries deliver benefits and protections to their
workforce.
With the proliferation of digital job platforms, the social safety net for workers in the US – threadbare to begin with – is at risk of unraveling for a growing share of the
workforce.
Making Sense of Pension ReformWARSAW – Pension reform has become one of the most troubling fiscal dilemmas facing developed countries, especially those with a shrinking
workforce
and an aging population.
This is unlikely, given Poland’s political stability, prudent macroeconomic policies, high GDP growth rates, skilled workforce, and liquid financial markets.
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