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The most important economic issue facing governments in Western Europe today is mass unemployment. Just as the fight against inflation dominated political agendas in the late 1970s, so has unemployment now become the central economic concern of voters and political parties.
This text was first published in a Charter for Jobs Economic Report in March 1986.
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Shields, J. (1989). Medium-Term Employment Strategies. In: Shields, J. (eds) Conquering Unemployment: The Case for Economic Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20173-0_4
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