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Work And You: Things Can Only Get Better (maybe)

When will the jobs market improve? And how people who start careers in recessions don't catch up with colleagues who start in a boom. Plus dogs in the office. Lucy Kellaway wonders who needs them.

When will the jobs market improve? One of the world's top labour economists makes his forecast.
And the penalty of starting careers in recession - how people who take jobs when unemployment is high don't catch up with colleagues who start in a boom. Lisa Kahn of Yale talks about her startling research.
Plus dogs in the office. Lucy Kellaway wonders if snakes or hamsters might be better.

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18 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Dec 2009 02:40GMT

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  • Mon 21 Dec 2009 08:32GMT
  • Mon 21 Dec 2009 19:40GMT
  • Tue 22 Dec 2009 02:40GMT

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