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Unemployment remains something of a mystery. The phenomenon is well researched, we have all kinds of theories about it, we organize conferences about it, governments tell us that they do their utmost to combat unemployment. This is all the more puzzling because the jobless are very close. It is not like studying quasars or the hole in the ozone layer — things that we never touch or smell. Economists study human beings, and the unemployed are not a separate kind of human. Some of our friends and relatives have been without a job in the past or still are.
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Pen, J. (1992). Unemployment as a mystery. In: Verhaar, C.H.A., Jansma, LG., de Goede, M.P.M., van Ophem, J.A.C., de Vries, A. (eds) On the Mysteries of Unemployment. Studies in Operational Regional Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8080-9_3
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