structural unemployment

C. Freeman
From The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, 2008
Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
Alternate versions available: 1987 Edition
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active labour market policies; aggregate demand; cyclical unemployment; frictional unemployment; Kondratieff cycles; Okun curve; principle of substitution; segmented labour markets; structural unemployment; technical change; technological unemployment; unemployment; uneven development; wage flexibility; wage rigidity
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Freeman, C. "structural unemployment." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online. Palgrave Macmillan. 20 May 2013 <http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_S000311> doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1641

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