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What we missed while we looked away -- the growth of long‐term unemployment

  • Written by Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
What we missed while we looked away -- the growth of long‐term unemploymentThe long-term unemployed are a growing proportion of the unemployed. It's hard to work out why.Shutterstock

Australia took its eyes off long-term unemployment, for what it thought were good reasons.

Long-term unemployment is defined as unemployment for more than 12 months in a row.

In the early 1990s, after the “recession we had to have”,...

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