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http://www.itinerainstitute.org/en/library/_paper/the-civil-servant-and-the-unemployed/
The civil servant and the unemployed
17 November 2008
Jean Hindriks
When jobs in the private sector are not competitive anymore, public employment is an easy option to make sure people have a job. This is the Scandinavian model. But a better solution is to subsidize employment, as service coupons in Belgium are successfully doing by creating 65.000 jobs.
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