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This age range, 15-24, is really diverse, but here we have college graduates, college students, high school graduates, high school students, and younger dropouts, all mixed into the same statistic.

What percentage of college grads are unemployed? What percentage of high school dropouts are unemployed? Several decades ago, when the 55+ crowd was under 24, what were their employment rates? What are these trends across gender?

Given how few sectors feature competition between 55- and 15-year-olds for the same work, the given comparison is far less interesting...




There was a somewhat related discussion a while back; you might find it interesting if you missed it. Granted, it's for a different demographic (25+ US citizens), and doesn't cover the gender aspect, just education level.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525621

There was also another discussion earlier today on youth unemployment in the US:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2730268

which argued that youth unemployment is related to the 55+ demographic retiring later (as opposed to minimum wage laws).




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