Instead, they will favour activist policies designed to help the unemployed through labour-market intervention.
However, this disassociation of the long term unemployed from the labour market is a real problem and it is one that can usefully use government intervention to solve it.
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But even low paid work would reconnect the unemployed to the labour market (many European countries have some version of this, my native UK for example insists that the long term unemployed should go work for nothing except their welfare benefits).
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The poor unemployed may be a new labour pool, but companies may not find them all that useful.
Essentially, the long term unemployed drop out of the labour force.
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This could encourage workers to pass up potential job opportunities. (It could also encourage people to register as unemployed, without affecting underlying labour supply.) Most studies suggest that the extensions can be blamed for an increase in the unemployment rate of about a percentage point, although a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says the effect is much smaller, just 0.4 percentage points.
The longer they remain out of work, the less the unemployed make their presence felt in the labour market.
In particular we run the risk that another generation of long-term unemployed become condemned to languish outside the labour market for the rest of their lives.
The number of people registered unemployed in Spain fell in December, the Labour Ministry has said, a rare glimmer of hope for its recession-hit economy.
It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the labour force.
Yet the government, which has commissioned a review on the future of SAWS, does not want to encourage migrant labour when 2.6m Britons are unemployed.
Estimates from the International Labour Organisation suggest the number of people unemployed in emerging economies rose by 8m in 2008 to 158m, an overall jobless rate of around 5.9%.
It has fallen far faster than the tepid pace of growth (currently flatlining at 2.1%) merits, primarily because so many people have left the labour force and are thus not counted as unemployed.
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Earlier labour-market reforms continue to put pressure on the unemployed to find work, notes Eckart Tuchtfeld of Commerzbank.
Labour has said it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job if it was in government.
Campaign groups like Migration Watch argue that the majority of jobs created by Labour went to foreign workers, leaving the proportion of unemployed Britons little changed.
It shows that these schemes were less effective when local labour markets were weak, serving only to push the unemployed off benefits but not into work.
What really turns him on, apart from macroeconomic policy, are welfare and labour-market issues such as reducing child poverty and getting unemployed people back to work.
Of those in the labour market in Brazil, for example, nearly one in five is unemployed.
When the labour market is strong, he points out, the people who remain unemployed tend to be the most difficult to place.
The statistics, compiled by the Northern Ireland Labour Force, said that 51, 000 people in the province were unemployed during the first quarter of this year.
Labour's shadow work and pensions spokesman Liam Byrne said the long-term unemployed needed to be "working or training and not claiming".
If the pool of unused labour (including those who choose not to have jobs as well as the officially unemployed) could be put to work, Europe's economies would temporarily jump ahead.
Scottish Labour MSP Elaine Murray asked the minister if the primary purpose of the scheme was to bring unemployed people into work or reskill those already in work, during the final evidence session of the committee as part of its inquiry into improving employability.
There are amendments down from Labour to strike out the 1% limit, link any changes to a job guarantee for those unemployed for more than two years, and to the top rate of income tax.
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