ERIC Number: ED519660
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Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 21
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The Shifting Demographics and Lifelong Learning. Conference Paper
Karmel, Tom
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Paper presented to the International Symposium on Lifelong Learning for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Developing a Research Agenda for the Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong, Jan 12-13, 2011)
This paper was presented at the International Symposium on Lifelong Learning for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Developing a Research Agenda for the Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong, 12-13 January 2011. Tom Karmel suggests that there are four implications of an ageing population: the need to improve labour force participation and productivity; the ageing population will provide a "demographic dividend" because there will be fewer young people to school; increasing life expectancy changes the arithmetic of the return to investments in human capital and makes investment in the middle-aged more attractive; and ageing populations in developed countries provide an opportunity for developing countries through the export of labour services. (Contains 4 tables, 6 figures and 2 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Human Capital, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Conference Papers, Demography, Population Trends, Productivity, Labor Force Development, Work Life Expectancy, Aging (Individuals)
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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