Figures indicate that from March to May this year the size of the labour force was provisionally at 3,462,000, while the number of unemployed people stood at 216,000.

数据显示，今年3月至5月，劳动力规模暂时为346.2万人，失业人数为21.6万人。

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And far too much of the drop in unemployment appears to be due to the exit from the Labour force of long-term unemployed workers and early retirees.

下降的失业率很大程度上显示出这与现存的长时间失业的劳动力和较早的退休人员有关。

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A recent study of the Labour market suggests that had the distribution of unemployed workers following the 1982 recession looked like the current distribution, recovery could have taken twice as long.

一篇关于劳动力市场的最新研究报告指出，若1982年经济衰退后失业人群的分布类似于今天这种情形，那么，当年的经济恢复可能会花两倍的时间。

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Instead, they will favour activist policies designed to help the unemployed through labour-market intervention.

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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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