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Youth and children in Europe set the new perspectives for the decades to come

April 20, 2015 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The share of children of less than 15% in a population is a powerful and polyvalent indicator. For one thing, it accurately predicts the strength or the frailness of the country’s most valuable asset for the next decades, which is its human capital in productive age. The obvious value of the related statistics led Eurostat, […]

Filed Under: Employment & Social Affairs, Policy Tagged With: children, Croatia, Denmark, EU, Eurostat, Germany, Greece, human capital, Ireland, Italy, Population, young, youth

Women to save Europe’s own labour resources

September 10, 2013 by Suzan A. Kane Leave a Comment

Labour market participation rates are socially sensitive variables and as such are slightly affected by short-term economic developments and modestly connected to cyclical changes. Because of that any attempt to follow the evolution of labour market participation percentages has to cover long periods incorporating more than one economic cycle. In view of that Eurostat, the […]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: crisis, European Union, Eurostat, labour market, Population, statistics, women

Population in crisis hit EU countries will suffer for decades

May 9, 2013 by Suzan A. Kane 1 Comment

The positive relation between economic growth and the size of population is one of the best established principles in economic theory. There is no doubt then that today’s birth rate and future GDP are positively related, despite the fact that the dynamism of the correlation between those two crucial variables, seems to vary according to […]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: birth rate, childbearing, crisis, Eurostat, Eurozone, growth, people, Population