L'emploi en Europe à l'horizon 2015. Évolution démographique et reflux du chômage

Employment in Europe in the Year 2015. Demographic Evolution and Ebb of Unemployment
Géry Coomans analyses here the incidence of change in the working population – and more specifically the population of working age (15-64 years) – from changes in employment and unemployment in the European Union.
He shows that the increase in workers aged 15-64 years – whose numbers and work schedules varied according to country – explains in part the changes in unemployment and under-employment during the last twenty years.
Showing then that this population category will go on decreasing to the year 2015 (at the exit of the Baby Boomers and when the Baby Busters, the low-birth-rate generation, reach working age), unemployment would be bound to decrease and labour shortages occur.
He stresses however that prospects differ according to country and region because of the very different levels in the rate of occupation (employment rate), that – in other words – pools of workers remain able to work in places where these rates are the lowest. He thus outlines two scenarios one based on the geographic mobility of the workforce, the other on investment which results in showing a comparison of prospects for development in the different regions.
One thing in any case seems evident to the writer: the scarcity of workers aged 20-29 years will lead – apart from a labour shortage – to a re-assessment of their salaries, benefiting all levels of qualification.