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[Special Series ③] Will Extending the Retirement Age Reduce Jobs for Young People?… Not a Zero-Sum Game, but a Structural Issue
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- The series article points out that no clear causal relationship has been confirmed between extending the retirement age and reduced jobs for young people.
- It reports that in Korea and OECD countries, youth unemployment has not automatically risen even though the employment rate of older people has increased.
- The article analyzes that whether extending the retirement age can coexist with youth employment depends on structural reforms that divide roles by generation and on social consensus.
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [연재특집 ③] 정년을 늘리면 청년 일자리는 줄어들까… ‘제로섬’이 아닌 구조의 문제
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