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In Australian post-war economic history the last decade has seen a substantial increase in the unemployment rate and a concomitant increase in long-term unemployment (see Figures 1 and 2 and also Table 1).
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Junankar, P.N., Kapuscinski, C.A. (1992). Long-term unemployment in Australia: problems of memory and measurement. 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_23
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