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The impact of the economic crisis on labour and education in Europe
Barakat, Bilal; Holler, Johannes; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2010
in sectors which have been less severely hit by the crisis. Focusing on the education sector, it seems that the demand … for education increases because individuals try to circumvent the tight labour market, while the supply of education … early to make a definite statement because the full impact of the crisis on the education sector is still to come. …
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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to United Nations projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of...
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