Depression is a major cause of disability, absenteeism, and productivity loss among working-age adults .
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The red line is the percentage of the working-age population in the labor force.
Meanwhile the baby-boomer generation has emerged into adulthood, boosting the share of working-age people.
As the proportion of working-age people to dependents rises, growth should get a boost.
Since 1997, inactivity has stuck at just over a fifth of the working-age population.
Nearly 80% of working-age benefit recipients say they already use the internet to make some claims.
Last year the ranks of working-age Chinese fell as a percentage of the population.
In the 15 members of the European Union the working-age population will start to fall after 2010.
Once admitted they spend 11 days on average in hospital - nearly four times longer than working-age adults.
Miami beckons retirees from the North but offers little to its working-age residents, who leave for the West.
Barely more than 4% of the working-age population is jobless, and inward immigration is expanding the labour force.
Most capital-income taxes are paid by working-age adults saving for retirement, who will continue to save despite taxes.
But South Korea's and China's working-age populations too will soon start to shrink.
Western Europe's working-age population is already shrinking, though not as fast as Japan's.
Much of the working-age population gets subsidized insurance because employer-paid health insurance premiums are not treated as taxable income.
It said it was needed because working-age social welfare rates were now more than twice their rate in 2000.
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Vermeer and Pella between them offer a combined 5, 500 nonunion jobs in a town where 7, 500 working-age adults live.
At first there would be a freeze to a wide range of working-age benefits to last for two years.
When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.
Changes to housing benefit affecting working-age social housing tenants deemed to have spare bedrooms came into effect on 1 April.
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The bad news is that this looks likely to slow because working-age populations will decline more rapidly than overall populations.
The employment rate for working-age Americans with a disability is about 18 percent, down from 20 percent four years ago.
In places such as Wimbledon and Winchester, only about one in 40 of working-age adults does not have a qualification.
Working-age council tax benefit recipients will have to pay at least a quarter of their bill, Cornwall councillors have decided.
That will mean all 118, 000 working-age people currently on DLA in Northern Ireland will be reassessed and receive PIP instead.
And with the deaths concentrated in the working-age population, each new case adds to a widening circle of economic hardship.
Like the U.S., China is expected to have a high population of retirees and a smaller number in the working-age population.
First, there are Medicare cuts (or optimistically, Medicare efficiencies), which will have no direct impact whatsoever on employers or working-age patients.
China's growth rate is bound to slow in coming years as its working-age population starts to shrink and productivity growth declines.
One obvious consequence will be pressure on the social-insurance system, including health care and pensions, as the working-age population shrinks dramatically.
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