ABSTRACT
Ten years of growing unemployment in the developed capitalist countries have induced economic theory and economic policy to turn-after the usual time lag-more massively than in the years before to problems of unemployment and to labour market questions in general. There is no lack of investigations nowadays dealing with types and forms of unemployment and with possibilities of fighting it. The present paper does not pretend to be able to offer any fundamental new insights into the problems under discussion. All that is attempted is to throw some light on the question indicated by the title of the paper, viz. whether structural problems on the labour market demand or obstruct an active employment policy and what connections there are between structural problems and current economic policy.
