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Over the past two decades, labor market conditions in many advanced industrial societies have dramatically changed. The relatively low levels of unemployment of the 1960s have been replaced by the high and, for the most part, persistent levels of unemployment of the 1980s.
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Rosenberg, S. (1989). Labor Market Restructuring in Europe and the United States. In: Rosenberg, S. (eds) The State and the Labor Market. Plenum Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0801-0_1
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