The Impact of Demographic Trends in the United Kingdom on Women’s Employment Prospects in the 1990s

Lynne Evans
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Lynne Evans: University of Durham

Chapter 7 in Women’s Work in the World Economy, 1992, pp 132-154 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Arguably the most important impact on the UK labour market over the next decade will be the so-called demographic time-bomb — the most salient feature of which is the sharp fall in the number of young people in the population.2 Allowing for this cohort’s increased participation in voluntary education, the labour force aged under 25 is projected to fall by 1.2 million, or approximately 20 per cent, between 1987 and 1995.3 Not surprisingly, increased labour force participation by women is perceived to be the most likely way to maintain the overall size of the labour force at some sort of steady state.

Keywords: Labour Market; Labour Force; Woman Worker; Occupational Segregation; Employment Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13188-4_7

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