Together with significant exclusion from the labour market, this reinforces the need for a job creation policy.

The reality of their adulthood may include exclusion from the labour market (Oliver 1989).

Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.

The European Union's single main tool for fighting against exclusion from the labour market is the Integra Community employment initiative within the Structural Funds.

This reliance on the state demonstrates the impact of exclusion from the labour market - only 9 per cent of the total income of older people comes from employment.

Their lack of education and their exclusion from the labour market, which will only become worse unless we act now, will exacerbate even further the integration problems caused by demographic changes.

The situation of women in often archaic Roma society is particularly dramatic, and their lack of education and, hence, their exclusion from the labour market is so much the greater.

They have obtained a tool for participating in the work on the other important objectives of EU employment policy: reducing exclusion from the labour market, ensuring that we are flexible and competitive and ensuring that it becomes possible better to combine working life and family life.