IPOs provide young firms with cash to hire new hands and disrupt established markets.

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With such a surplus of job-seekers, the government should be making it easier for employers in all sectors to hire new hands.

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Although sugar-cane harvesting and grape-growing could now be done largely by machine, many farmers find it cheaper to hire foreign hands for the season.

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Think about it: If more people in rural areas took their future into their own hands and became an entrepreneur, new starts would increase and that would mean more companies to hire even more people.

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