The scoping paper addresses unemployment as a complex issue, because it has many, diverse, interrelated variables that are perceived differently by different stakeholders (Flood and Carson, 1993). It suggests a multiple mixed methods approach Romm, 2017) to inform policy development based on a policy process that re-presents the voices of diverse stakeholders (Hesse Biber, 2010), in order to inform a response that takes diverse views into account and strives to find a way to find overlaps in interests or to recognize spaces for difference.
