Simply put, Europe s problems have become intertwined. The continent needs productivity enhancing investment in order to compensate for its shrinking workforce but its demographic weakness is causing companies to hold back.

China s Shrinking Trade Surplus

These are shrinking even further.

Source Workforce 1999, ESA, 2992, p 73 Workforce 2002, ESA, p 97.

The Euro in a Shrinking Zone

Employment of women on an equal basis with men provides companies with a larger talent pool, potentially increasing creativity, innovation, and productivity. And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.

Women Participation in the Workforce

They were shrinking vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

With a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, tax revenue will contract, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the fiscal position. Various estimates by private sector economists and World Bank officials suggest that the government s accumulated net implicit pension debt could balloon to 75 110 of GDP.

It is able to couple onto the growing and shrinking microtubules.

Throughout the world, male female differences in HIV prevalence are shrinking.

And so there won't be any workforce.

Workforce participation rates for women have risen.

95 percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking.

They're both shrinking and retreating and some of them have disappeared altogether.

To see what's going to happen, you can't just look at the workforce that is now, you have to look at our future workforce.

He'd close down 30 percent of the workforce.

Women represent 46 of the public service workforce.

Source Statistics Netherlands (survey of the workforce) 2001

Women do not negotiate for themselves in the workforce.

The first is women working, moving into the workforce.

Women constitute slightly more than half of the workforce.

Not all women are willing to enter the workforce.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

Statistical data on participation of indigenous women in the workforce

Miniaturization we're shrinking the size of technology at an exponential rate, both wired and wireless.

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

And then eventually they get recruited to join this exterior workforce.

And then to support the surgeon, we require a certain workforce.

In order to sustain growth, it needs to continue to invest half of its 9 trillion annual GDP no easy task for a country that already has brand new highways and airports. In fact, over the next decade, as China attempts to move up the value chain into services and adjusts to a shrinking workforce, its investment requirements will shrink and its investment rate will fall sharply.

This focused on several areas including resource allocation, workforce strategy and accountability.

But challenges remain visible minority representation in the public service workforce was 7.8 percent in 2004, well below the workforce availability figure of about 10.4 percent for visible minorities based on the 2001 Census.

The second compelling benefit of compassion is that it creates an inspiring workforce.

It is still fragmented and does not provide for mobility of its workforce.

Magnetic data storage that's not Moore's Law, it's shrinking magnetic spots, different engineers, different companies, same exponential process.

God knows what every female bears, and the wombs' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

God knows what every female bears, and the wombs' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

Women, for the first time this year, became the majority of the American workforce.

In 2003, the Israeli civil workforce totaled 1.4 million men and 1.2 million women.

Women constituted about half of the country's workforce and were its main food producers.

Although salary levels in the market economy are aligned to workforce productivity, a practice is still in force that payments are made on the basis of seniority and degree of education which affects the mobility of the workforce.

So I'm not saying that staying in the workforce is the right thing for everyone.

There has been progress over 5,200 visible minorities joined the workforce between 2000 and 2004.

This benefit is available to employees whose employer's regular workforce is at least 50 employees.