“Better integrating underrepresented groups – such as women, older people, migrants and persons with disabilities – into the job market can help to mitigate skills and labour shortages and offset the demographic changes that risk shrinking the EU’s workforce by up to 18 million by 2050,” stressed the European Commission’s 2025 ‘Employment and Social Developments in Europe’ (ESDE) report on Tuesday, 16 September.
The report notes that one-fifth of the working-age...