Nobody likes working but becoming unemployed is not the answer. Unemployment has traditionally been a poverty trap and cause for public shaming in a country that also rates bludging as a legitimate pastime.
Jeff Borland is Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. He spends a lot of time looking at the labour markets and can speak with authority about the usefulness of schemes like 'work for the dole' and job application quotas.
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