Long-term unemployment: What the U.S. can learn from Sweden - The Term Sheet: Fortune's... - 1 views
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less than 10% of Americans who were unemployed had been so for more than 27 weeks. Now, 35.8% of unemployed Americans fit into this category.
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Long-term unemployment is a particularly pernicious problem because of its compounding nature -- long stretches of unemployment erode workers' skills, while employers have an irrational bias against the long-term unemployed.
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Take Sweden
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