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

In: Women’s Work in the World Economy

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  • Lynne Evans

    (University of Durham)

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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.

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  • Lynne Evans, 1992. "The Impact of Demographic Trends in the United Kingdom on Women’s Employment Prospects in the 1990s," International Economic Association Series, in: Nancy Folbre & Barbara Bergmann & Bina Agarwal & Maria Floro (ed.), Women’s Work in the World Economy, chapter 7, pages 132-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-13188-4_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13188-4_7
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