Ageing of Skills and Complementary Immigration in the EU, 2010-2025

Abstract

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Brigid Laffan since September 2013, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union.

Ageing and migration. Reflection on an emerging nexus and application to the Middle East and northern Africa

“…Therefore, recently acquired, up‐to‐date knowledge available in the workforce decreases in relative terms with population ageing. A process of skills ageing is at play with possibly negative economic consequences (Fargues & McCormick, 2013). It calls for a range of responses: in the short‐term, policies such as updating knowledge of local workers through lifelong learning and bringing in migrant workers with the suitable qualifications; in the long‐term, reappraising non‐tangible products in the measurement of economic performance, social progress, wealth, and wellbeing (Stiglitz et al., 2009), and valuing what really counts (United Nations System, 2022).…”