Demographic change: legal. If Europe is to tackle its demographic decline it should take lessons from the USA’s comprehensive immigration reforms. With declining birth rates and an ageing population, Europe is facing the threat of a demographic decline by the middle of the century.
Facing similar challenges, the US has recently moved to reform its immigration policies, thus allowing greater numbers of migrants to encourage growth. Sarah Wolff argues for similar reforms for European immigration policies, which until now, have been focused on the promotion of intra-European immigration, whilst securing the EU’s external borders and organising the return of irregular migrants. This article was originally published on LSE’s EUROPP blog. ‘Now is the time’ hammered out President Obama in his January speech on immigration reform. Time has come to act upon migration as a golden opportunity for US economic recovery. This ‘common-sense’ reform includes a facilitated access to citizenship for US Green Card holders and the regularisation of undocumented migrants under a number of conditions. Credit: J Aaron Faar (Creative Commons: BY) Cameron says EU exit is not solution to migration fears.
11 October 2012Last updated at 06:15 ET A large number of migrant workers have settled in Lincolnshire to serve the food production industry David Cameron has said pulling out of the European Union would not ease the tension caused by immigration in some communities.
The Prime Minister said welfare reform would encourage more British-born workers to compete with EU nationals in the labour market. Mr Cameron was responding to concerns raised in a report on the impact of migration on the Lincolnshire town of Boston. Recent years have seen a large number of migrant workers settle in Lincolnshire and surrounding counties to serve the food production industry. Some claim the arrival of families from Eastern Europe has put pressure on public services and excluded British people from many jobs. EU referendum?
But I don't want us to leave the European Union because we are a trading nation. End QuoteDavid Cameron PM "But I don't want us to leave the European Union because we are a trading nation. Demographic Change: Environment. RCEP - Reports - 29th study: The Environmental Impacts of Demographic Change in the UK. 29th study: Demographic change and the environment 16 February 2011: Royal Commission launches 29th report 'Demographic Change and the Environment '
2nd Report, 2013 (Session 4): Demographic change and an ageing population - Parliamentary Business. SP Paper 265 2nd Report, 2013 (Session 4)
Realizing the Demographic Dividend: Challenges and Opportunities for Ministers of Finance and Development. Policies to spur future job creation and economic growth are shaped by the age structure of a country’s population.
Declining fertility, accelerated by investments in better health, family planning services, and gender equality, results in a smaller population at young dependent ages and a larger population of adults in the labor force, and then leads to a swelling in the ranks of the elderly. Through concrete policy actions in family planning, health, education, gender equality, and labor market policies, a number of countries have produced large and positive economic returns, referred to as the "Demographic Dividend.
" Most developing countries have a short window of opportunity to enact policies and promote investments that raise the human capital of young people while positioning them for greater economic productivity when they enter their working years. Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, Information about Scotland's Areas.