• Unemployment rates were higher for persons without high school degrees, except for men and women in Mexico and for women in the Republic of Korea.
• The unemployment rates of persons without high school degrees were at least three times those of persons with college or university degrees for men in Norway and Austria, and for both men and women in Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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NOTE: 2004 for Austria. 2003 for Japan. The unemployment rates used to calculate these ratios are for men and women ages 25 to 64.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.