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Structural Unemployment

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AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, IB, OCR, WJEC

Last updated 17 Apr 2017

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This topic video looks at some of the underlying causes of structural unemployment in the labour market especially structural barriers arising from labour market failure. Much structural unemployment is long term.

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