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Tackling unemployment: Europe's successes and failures

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell


Why has unemployment fallen in some European countries but not in others? To answer this question, Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman revisit their landmark analysis of macroeconomic performance and the labour market.


February 2005     Paper Number CEPCP175

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