This process systematically narrows the candidate pool, leading to homogeneity in hiring, a reduction in new approaches and new ways of thinking, and a less valuable, less dynamic employee population.

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In the past decade, the EU, admittedly with a larger population, has created as many jobs as more dynamic America.

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Higher fertility rates and immigration produce not only a larger population but a society that is younger, more mixed ethnically and, on balance, more dynamic.

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