In contrast, the pace of job creation (lower panel) continued to fall until the end of 2003, when  1  My presentation today is based on work with Andrew Figura, Bruce Fallick, and William Wascher. BIS Review 1/2005  1  employment finally began to turn up.
Looking at the population dynamics of the Maldives, we have a disproportionately large share of the population in the youth age bracket. While we can enjoy the benefits of a large youth population today, this also implies that within 35 to 40 years, this group of people will become retirees and the payouts from the pension fund will increase dramatically.