It is a real danger when a person is unemployed for a long time.

This is going to be real unscientific since the link to the webpage with details about the study is lost. Anyway there is a big chance for people that have been unemployed for over a year will never work again for the rest of their life. It was in the range about 60-80 % of the people that have been unemployed for the last year would never work again in their lives. That is quite scary.

There may be many reasons for why a person is out of work, and while trying to getting back into work have failed. For example a high age, qualifications are outdated or any physical limitations such as a bad back and so on.

When looking at it from the employer’s side it would be very difficult to justify hiring a person that has been unemployed for such a long time if there are other qualified candidates. Also a potential employer would also ask when nobody else wants this person what is it that our company sees in this person that the others have overlooked, possible very little.