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The EU has set the target of halving unemployment by the year 2000 (CEU, 1993). How can this be done without increasing inflation? The strategy must be to reduce those kinds of unemployment which do little to restrain inflation. The most obvious such category is long-term unemployment.
Chapter 11 in D. Snower and G. de la Dehesa (eds), Unemployment Policy: Government options for the Labour Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the CEPR, 1997), pp. 333–49.
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Layard, R. (1999). Preventing Long-term Unemployment: An Economic Analysis (1997). In: Tackling Unemployment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379206_14
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