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In the context of the rapidly advancing population ageing, the region of Latin America and the Caribbean is currently facing an unprecedented challenge of adapting to the transformed - yet, still evolving - age structure of the population. The paper provides a regional synthesis of the National...
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In the course of employment changes parallel to the changing process of the regime, youth had to face heavy problems …
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Using merged mid-decade data through 2006 of the Current Population Survey (CPS), this report provides a detailed national-level profile of the more than 67 million young adults in the United States, ages 18 to 34. The report examines the growing size and diversity of this population, the living...
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Demography affects our daily lives. Consciously or not, we take into account the demographic context when making choices on employment, savings, health, and education. This report studies how demographic change is likely to affect demand for social services in Southern Africa and how today's...
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This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … they provide a more accurate measure of the youth population in an actual labour market. Based on instrumental variables … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 The 'Youthful Bulge' and a Hope Squandered -- Chapter 2 Fettered by Birth, Battered in Life -- Chapter 3 Vicissitudes of Growth -- Chapter 4 Misplaced Priorities -- Chapter 5 Beyond the...
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