Nice Work if You Can Find It; Reforming Welfare  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8763 (Dec. 2011), page 55-56.
Topik: Economic Recovery; Welfare; Public Policy; Unemployment; Social Security
Fulltext: Reforming Welfare.pdf (42.13KB)

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The scene in a grey industrial estate in Solihull, in the West Midlands, looks like a typical factory floor. Security guards pace the premises as workers go about their tasks. Some sit at terminals completing forms on computers. In the canteen staff prepare for the lunchtime rush. The difference is that most of the people here are not in a job at all, but at an employment centre run by a private contractor--part of a bold government-funded project to get the unemployed into work. The backdrop is forbidding. Job growth in the private sector is weak, and public-sector jobs are disappearing. Fully 2.62m people, representing 8.3% of Britain's potential workforce, are unemployed. A growing number of people have languished on benefits for many months and even years. Ministers desperately want to avoid a return to "hysteresis", an ugly word for the ugly phenomenon of systemic unemployment that persists even when the economy improves. Other countries have successfully implemented welfare-to-work programmes. Few have done so in such daunting circumstances.

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