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These regulations have helped the Community to meet
its labor shortages, by permitting more than 700,000 Italian
.2
workers to find jobs in other Community countries prior to
1966, and, in later years, by opening the way for increasingly
large numbers of non-Community workers to migrate to labor-
shortage countries.
Causes of Labor Shortage in Europe
Viewed demographically, the labor shortage in Western
Europe, which first became acute in the early 1960's, stems
from multiple factors. Among the more predominant of these
are as follows:
1. Depressed birth rates during the war years (1939
to 1945) ;
2. Casualties suffered in the war;
3. Birth rates which again fell appreciatively after
a relatively brief post-war rise;
4. The consequent aging of the population which is
the inevitable consequence of the foregoing variables;3 and
5. The postwar recovery and dramatic economic growth
in the 1960's.
Because of these reasons, several European Economic
Community (EEC) member countries, especially the Federal
2Gordon L. Weil, A Handbook on the European Economic
Community (New York, 1965), p. 257.
3R. E. Krane, "Effects of Cyclical International Com-
position Migration Upon Socio-Economic Mobility," Interna-
tional Migration Review, VII (Winter, 1973), 428.
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Ateṣ, Hüseyin. An analysis and overview of the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community, dissertation, August 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332528/m1/91/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .