Structural unemployment. An analysis of recruitment and selection mechanisms based on panel data among Danish long-term unemployed

• Published in: International journal of social welfare Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 170 - 181
• Main Author: Larsen, Christian Albrekt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2003
• Subjects: activation; Business Cycles; Denmark; Europe; Labor Market; Labor Policy; Labour market; Level of education; policy learning; Recruitment; Structural unemployment; Unemployment; Unemployment Rates; Welfare state; Work incentives; workfare

The perception of structural unemployment – summarised in the notion of ‘Eurosclerosis’– became almost hegemonic during the 1990s. Policy makers all over Europe tried, by means of supply‐side policies, to counteract the lack of incentives in the developed European welfare states, the lack of qualifi...