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Despite real world examples, a full job guarantee is universal.

Ehnts, Dirk H., and Maurice Höfgen., 2019, "The job guarantee: Full employment, price stability and social progress." Society Register 3.2 (2019): 49-65., panav

With regards to real-world examples of JG programs, the empirical record of direct public employment programs ranges from large-scale programs in India (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), Argentina (Plan Jefes y Jefas) or the US (New Deal) to smaller-scale programs such as youth employment guarantees. While these programs offer insights about a potential outline of the JG as well about its social and economic effects, their applicability, however, is limited since those programs were of smaller scale, targeted to specific groups or time-limited. In contrast, the JG, as outlined in this paper, is a universal program of national scale.

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