Abstract

ARGYRIADES, Demetrios. Employment is more than a Job. It is the Essential Pedestal Underpinning Social inclusion and Democracy itself. Merc. negocios [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.42, pp.119-142.  Epub Oct 10, 2022. ISSN 2594-0163.  https://doi.org/10.32870/myn.v1i42.7604.

The objective of this paper is to analyse the employment like the essential pedestal underpinning social inclusion and democracy itself. Many people were furloughed or “fired” because of COVID 19. After years of full employment, with unemployment rates at a historic low around, in fact, the level of 3 per cent, society had to adjust to a crisis brought about, not by paucity of demand or a liquidity shortage but an invisible virus, whose nature and mutations, as well as targets and symptoms are still imperfectly grasped, making its treatment difficult. This paper tries to argue that, in exploring causes, a systems approach is needed; in-depth historical studies, as well as “numbers-crunching”.

Keywords : COVID 19; unemployment; economic recovery; public administration; business; A13; I31; J15; J81; O15.