"The connection between job security laws and unemployment has been understood by some officials but apparently not by much of the public, including the educated public. When France tried to deal with its high youth unemployment rate of 23 percent by easing its stringent job security laws for people on their first job, students at the Sorbonne and other French universities rioted in Paris and other cities across the country in 2006."
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Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics, 4th ed. (2010), Ch. 10 Controlled Labor Market
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