strategy

Combatting long term unemployment

Synonyms:
Reducing long-term unemployment
Rejecting notion of permanent joblessness
Reducing chronic unemployment trap
Implementation:
In 1999, member states of the European Union committed themselves to offer a fresh start, by 2002 at the latest, to every unemployed young person before he or she has been jobless for six months, and for 12 months in the case of all other people without jobs.
Facilitated by:
Undertaking cost-cutting
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth