Older people and the labour market
The issue is a familiar one: due to demographic change, many more older people are leaving the workforce than younger ones are joining it. Germany is set to lose several million workers over the coming decades unless countermeasures are taken to stem the outflow of labour. One option is to keep older people in their jobs for longer. The proportion of older people in the job market and the proportion of older people in employment in Germany are higher than average compared with other European countries. Nonetheless, older people are still the group most affected by unemployment and their prospects of finding a new job have not improved in the last ten years. Older candidates remain at a disadvantage compared with younger ones in this respect.
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