I remember very clearly the first essay I was set in my first term at university studying eeonomics.
Essentially it asked 'If at a time of high unemployment one man by constant searching can find himself a job, why cannot all unemployed men?' The answer is obvious.
Similarly, if people lower their expectations, assuming that they are reasonable and well founded, that will not help. Employers are very unwilling to take on a graduate, for example, in a low paid clerical or retail permanent post because they believe, probably with justification, that they will continue to look for more appropriate work and will leave a low paid, low skill job as soon as they possible can.
