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How war can affect jobs

How displacement, migration and labor-force change can shift jobs, services, housing and the long-run tax base — with an assumption-based labor model. A scenario, not a forecast; no current figure is asserted.

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  1. War can move large numbers of people and change the size of the workforce.
  2. Sectors that rely on labor — construction, care, services — can feel staffing pressure.
  3. Over years, a changed workforce can reshape growth and the tax base.

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