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精品文档 Acrossthe rich world, well-educated people increasinglywork longer than the less-skilled.Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-schoolcertificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-education well off and the unskilled poor. Rapid tech nological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squ eezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individual and soci ety, are profound. 在发达国家，受过良好教育的人工作的年限比那些没有什么技能的人 的越来越长。有 65％的年龄在 62 到 74 岁的拥有专业学位的美国男 性还在工作，而只有高中学历的只有 32 ％的仍然在工作 .这进一步拉 大了受过良好教育的富人和没有任何技能的穷人之间的差距。 随着科 技的发展， 那些有着高级技能的人的收入上升了， 而那些没技能的人 的收入却被压榨了。这种结果值得个人和社会深思。 The world is facing as astonishing rise in the number of old people, an d they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the glob al population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 mi llion to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater lo ngevity ( 长 寿)translated into more years in retirement rather than more 精品文档 精品文档 发达国家正面临着这样的情况： 老年人口剧增， 而且寿命会比以往还 要长。在接下来的 20 年里，全球年龄在 65 岁的人口数量会增加甚至 会是之前的两倍，将会从 6 亿增到 11 亿。 The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity ( 长 寿 )translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create go vernment budget problem。 寿命的延长演变成了退休年份的延长，而不是工作年份的延长， 20 世纪的经验告诉很多观察者 :这一转变将会减缓经济发展的步伐，领 养老金的队伍日益膨胀，这将给政府的财政预算带来麻烦。 But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the i dle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the