European Unemployment: Why is it So High and What Should be Done About it?
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At the end of 1997 the average unemployment rate across Europe was just over 10 per cent, more than twice the rate in the United States. Worse, the average (standardised) unemployment rate in Europe has exceeded 10 per cent in every year since 1993. By contrast, the average annual unemployment rate in the United States since the war has never exceeded 10 per cent in any year and the highest annual rate recorded over the past ten years has been 7.5 per cent in 1992.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998