the failure to achieve a sufficiently employment-intensive pattern of growth which has led not only to high levels of recorded unemployment but also to substantial hidden unemployment as people, especially women, have been discouraged by the lack of jobs even to look for work;
la falta de flexibilidad de los mercados de trabajo, que ha frenado el cambio estructural de la actividad económica necesario para mantener la competitividad y ha conducido a niveles elevados de desempleo de larga duración;