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Investigates, Discovers, Questions This week: The Jobs Riddle
Trains are cancelled because of staff shortages; manufacturers lose orders because of a lack of skilled workers.
Why is it, that with over one-and-a-quarter million people unemployed, there are still thousands of unfilled jobs up-and-down the country?
Is it that people won't or cant move from one region to another? Is it that there's a shortage of particular skills? Is it that employers and unions sometimes demand unnecessary skills? Is it that, for some, there is just not enough incentive to find a job? Can they get almost as much on the dole?
Jeremy James goes to one town, Mansfield, to seek answers to ' The Jobs Riddle '.
Producer JOHN PERCIVAL Editor TIM SLESSOR

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Jeremy James
Producer:
John Percival
Editor:
Tim Slessor

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