"Despite sustained GDP growth in metropolitan service hubs, the rate of long-term unemployment among workers aged 50 and over in post-industrial northern towns remains entrenched at 18.5%. Analysts point to rapid automation in manufacturing and a severe regional skills mismatch as key drivers of this persistent structural unemployment."
Using the data and your economic knowledge, evaluate different policies that could be used to reduce long-term structural unemployment among older workers in the UK.
327 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 2.3 Economic performance, covering 2.3.1 Economic growth and the economic cycle, 2.3.2 Employment and unemployment, 2.3.3 Inflation and deflation, and 2.3.4 Possible conflicts between macroeconomic policy objectives. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.