The only thing to do was cut back the workforce. Useful as it may be to be able to analyze unemployment in structural, cyclical, and frictional terms, all of these assume a closed labor market. But the actual situation is not so clear-cut.
不過，不管是結構性、景氣性、摩擦性，都是將失業問題鎖定在一個封閉的勞動市場中進行分析，然而真實情況並非如此。