New European Approaches to Long-term Unemployment (Studies in Employment and Social Policy)

A number of studies have shown that long-term unemployment is not only personally damaging in loss of immediate earnings, but that it also severely affects future employment prospects. One study showed that a spell of one month, on average, permanently reduces earnings by 1%, a spell of six months by 5%, and a spell of one year by 11%. As a result of alarming figures such as these, several leading European employment experts have begun to focus research pertaining to the overall European Employment Strategy on developing measures designed to address the special issues of long-term unemployment. This ground-breaking book presents incisive studies by sixteen leading academics, labour policymakers, employment services professionals, and employ

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