Small Business to Get Short Shrift from Obama Administration
Marc,
You seem to have a huge increase in retired elderly, so the workforce numbers must be coming from immigration. I’m guessing Arabs, which fits with the growth in service industries and microbusinesses
Yes, because of the age of retirement, 60 for the average French, 55 for the administration servants (often, if they reach their conventional legal amount of working years, which depends on the services policies)
Well, these positions vacuancies can’t be replaced by an african muslim immigration, even if they live in our country, they have to be “educated” or trained, another immigration from Africa can’t fill the goals either, those who managed to enter into our county made mostly the construction, mines, manufactures works, and they, for most of them, are now retired or will soon go on retirement.
Also as our mines are closed, our manufactures, often dislocated in cheap labour force countries, construction, roads maintenance, etc… still supply them jobs ; the contractors don’t need so much to hire abroad workers, sons of the former immigrants, Frenchs, “non educated”, still find their ways there, plus since the “Schengen agreements”, the new “priviliegied” immigration comes from the eastern EU republics, comprise their selves immigrants, ie Turcs from germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
As far as the “higher” positions, as we have some quite a large number of “educateds”, due to our low univerty fees, hence no problem to replace the retirees
also seems that we won the price of the best birth rate in EU lately
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090113/lf_afp/francehealthwomendemography_20090113200836
