And things are looking grim: according to an article in the September 10th issue of The Economist, youth unemployment in most countries in the OECD are at incredible lows.

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Most of the countries in the OECD already use shortage lists which are available on their official immigration websites.

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But the distribution of income in Chile is the most unequal in the OECD, a group of 31 mainly rich countries that it joined in 2010.

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Most OECD countries have announced increases in the retirement age (although the new French president, who seems to think the rules of maths don't apply to France, has done the opposite).

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Because people with jobs are way overworked in the US, where people work more hours per year than most if not all other OECD countries.

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