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World Service,24 Dec 2009,18 mins

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

Business Daily

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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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