Are the cures for high unemployment simply the reverses of the causes?

Answer 1

Whether you are talking about high unemployment, warts, soil erosion, insect infestations or anything else, reversing the cause is, at the worst, a good first step toward a cure, and at the best, the cure itself.

Many problems CAN be cured by reversing or even just eliminating the cause. Also, many CAN'T. It depends on the nature of the problem and whatever is being affected by it and also on the degree of the damage.
Those problems affecting kinetic values can usually be cured by the removal or reversal of the cause, but if the affected value is static, then all this will do is stop the onset of more damage - further action would be needed to actually CURE it.
(However, even in the worst case scenario, the first step - and a vital first step it is, too - IS to STOP the escalation of damage, and removing or reversing the cause is the best way to do so.)

KINETIC VALUE
Simply put, anything that contains a natural cycle of self-healing or self-renewal can eventually be cured by eliminating and/or reversing the cause of its problems - a physical injury or illness can heal once the cause is gone, when an endangered animal is no longer being hunted, its numbers can replinish, when an insulator is removed, electric current can flow again, etc.

STATIC VALUE
Anything that does NOT have such a capacity may need further help. You can chase the cat off the shelf of the curio cabinet and even put a glass door on the front so that kitty cannot get into it again, but this will NOT mend the three ceramic statuettes she knocked off and broke. The damage will not be "cured" until the pieces have been gathered up and re-joined with epoxy or superglue.

DEGREE OF DAMAGE
A CUT finger will heal, but a SEVERED one will not regrow.
A broken ceramic statue can be mended by further effort if all the pieces are found and they fit cleanly together, but if pieces are missing and they don't fit together properly, then it is a futile waste of time.

As to "HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT", it would depend on HOW high the unemployment rate is, and whether the situation surrounding it is kinetic (changeable and potentially self-renewing) or static (unfixable without further action involved).
In either case, though, eliminating and/or reversing the cause is STILL the essential first step.

Answer 2

Unemployment caused by recessions will go away when business activity increases, The fed or central bank lowering short term interest rate will stimulate the economy and make it happen faster. Chronic unemployment is usually due to deficiencies in government economic policy, but to fix it you need to examine the economy to find out what the problem is.There is no one size fix all solution. Sometimes economies in transition will have high unemployment as people move from agriculture to urban areas,

Answer 3

it depends on what is believed to be the cause.

I believe that there are many many factors that help contribute to overall unemployment...but the greatest can be seen in European countries that actually reward somebody who is out of work and punish workers with high taxes to pay for the social programs.

For an example, take a look at Ireland...the 'sick man' over there for many years, until they revamped their tax code recently and allowed business and personal achievement to grow.