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Out of Work: Lessons for Europe

The world is facing spiraling unemployment: especially Europe and the United States. According to the Economist, unemployment in the United Kingdom rose to 7.6% up to May 2009. Spain’s labor force is facing 17.4% unemployment. The Ecounemployment in eu and usnomist suggests that those unemployed are shifting the blame to foreign workers, who are willing to work for lower wages (and may have more experience), but then says that a more realistic scenario is that the increase in unemployment is due to an increase in the minimum wage.

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