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Language skills are key to integration in Germany

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GERMANY

Activity rates are low for asylum seekers as many do not have the language skills required by employers

Worker shortages and skills mismatches will hit growth

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INT

High youth unemployment and rising worker retirements are straining labour markets and productivity

Stimulating skills is key to emerging markets growth

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INT

Human capital will become as key to low-to-mid-income countries as it is for high-income ones

US STEM skills are unevenly spread

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UNITED STATES

A National Science Board report this month on US science and engineering stresses the importance of STEM education.

Brexit’s focus on non-EU workers will divide business

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UK

‘Withdrawal agreement’ priority for non-EU workers will ensure immigration debate persists

Some may escape EU joblessness in tertiary education

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EUROPE

High tertiary education rates in unemployment blackspots will not necessarily mean a more highly skilled workforce later

COVID-19 will worsen southern European ‘brain drain’

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EUROPE

The economic shock of COVID-19 on southern Europe will drive many more skilled people abroad in search of opportunity

Joblessness will rise as job-save policies are unwound

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INT

Policies have reduced the damage COVID-19 has done to Western job markets but these temporary schemes have to be unwound

Social cohesion is vital to promote long-run growth

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INT

Strong social and human capital can offset costs such as technologically stranded workers

Jobs look like Hungarian governing party success story

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HUNGARY

More Hungarians have been brought into the work force but the reserves are nearly used up requiring a new labour policy