Development of employment a. Developments in and the outlook for employment in the Community. The Community's economic recovery is well under way, but even if unemployment has stopped rising it will remain a major problem for some time. In the longer term, there is still uncertainty as to whether the job creation rate will be sufficient to bring employment to the appropriate level. The low rate of occupation in the Community is a reflection of high unemployment and a low rate of activity.
Few women have the opportunity to work and numbers of people are obliged to take early retirement.
The rate of activity among women is increasing rapidly and the working population is growing each time the number of jobs created increases. Economic growth and employment. The growth of employment in the Community is closely linked to the growth of production. The clear slowing down of productivity increases since the mid-1970s has inflated the job creation rate. This phenomenon is particularly apparent in the non-manufacturing sectors.