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From: S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net
At the same time, what is remarkable on the European side,
is the EU's willingness to allow, and the populaton's willingness to
tolerate rates of unemployment that, prior to the 1970s, would have caused
the every social democrate to tremble with fear over imminent revolution.
Spain's rate exceed 20% at one time, didn't it?
I don't think it's gone that high for a fairly long time now, but it was
very high in the early 90s and it is very high now. Speaking of Spain, I
think that part of the reason why this is is on the one hand the
introduction from the 60s onwards roughly of a social security system, which
earlier was essentially non-existent, and on the other hand the role of very
cohesive families, in a reasonably extended sense, which act as social
support during times of unemployment. We can see this right now in some
statistical indicators, like the age at which Spanish offspring leave their
parental home, or how often they return to it after unemployment (fairly
common now), delay in marrying age and having first child, etc etc.
--David.
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