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Hidden Unemployment
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Last updated 17 Oct 2019
Officially the labour force survey measure of unemployment in the UK has the jobless rate at just 3.8 percent of the labour force. But many researchers believe that the true level of unemployment is much higher. In this short video we cover the concept of hidden unemployment.
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