Although there are pockets of high unemployment in Europe today, the ratio of workers to elderly people will decline considerably in the longer term. And, already, labor-market flexibility has been undermined by structural inertia, including difficulties in retooling and retraining workers, particularly the long-term unemployed.
尽管如今欧洲失业现象严重，但在长期，工人与老龄人口之比将大幅下降。劳动力市场灵活性已经因为结构惯性（包括重新组织和培训员工尤其是长期失业员工方面的困难）而大受影响。