Abstract
British unemployment is higher than in any other large European country, and it is still growing. However, as Chart 1 shows, it has been at over 5 per cent since 1976. In this essay, I want first to discuss why unemployment has been so high for so long, and then to suggest what should be done about it.
Work and Social Change, 6, European Centre for Work and Society (Maastricht) (November), pp. 7–36.
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Layard, R. (1999). Unemployment in Britain: Causes and Cures (1981). In: Tackling Unemployment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379206_12
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