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Older people who need employment have to compete with younger people. What are the problems will this cause? And what solutions can be recommended?

#people #employment
With the development of society and
economy
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, a growing number of older
people
 who are seeking
for
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apply
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a
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an
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 occupation can be witnessed now.It is hard to deny that there would definitely be
a
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apply
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competition
 between them and
young
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the young
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 generation, which may
causes
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cause
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few
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a few
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troubles
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trouble
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. First and foremost, the unemployment rate may
to
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increase. As we all know, there are limited positions in
employment
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the employment
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 market as more and more
people
swarming
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 into
this
 area.
Therefore
, the situation that demand will
exceeds
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 supply would be more serious. Compared with the youth,
elderly
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the elderly
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 don’t have superiority which may
results
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result
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 in
the
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a
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 decrease
of
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in
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 the older
people
’s employment rate.Low employment might
also
leads
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lead
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 to
the
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apply
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instability in society, say, some seniors are likely to go suicide or destroy
the
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apply
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public equipment.
Additionally
, older
people
’s health may suffer from
this
 high-stress
competition
.
It is clear that
 younger
people
 normally have more energy and
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are passionate
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passionate
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 about the work, competing with them is obviously tough and arduous.
Therefore
, the body of seniors would be destroyed so that strengthen
medical
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the medical
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 burden.
However
,various manners can be advised in terms of these difficulties.
Firstly
,it is indispensable to provide more careers that suit older
people
 like
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a doorkeeper
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doorkeeper
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doorkeepers
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.
This
 kind of
jobs
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job
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require
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requires
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less
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fewer
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 skills and experience, which means there will be less
competition
 with young
people
.
As a result
,not only can
elderly
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the elderly
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 kill
their
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apply
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time but
also
 they can gain
salary
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a salary
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 easily.
Apart from
this
,
government
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the government
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 needs to update the system of social security and medical, bringing more care and convenience to older
people
 so that they will have a healthier
body
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bodies
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 and better
mood
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moods
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.
Thus
,
country’s
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the country’s
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 medical and economic burden would be relieved relatively and society would be more peaceful. In a nutshell,
although
 plenty of troubles may
arose
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due to
 the
competition
 between seniors and youth about pursuing jobs, there still have many suggestions to tackle them.
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