Reply #7: Fascinating graph

[Lydia Leftcoast]

So according to the graph of percentage employed, as opposed to percentage unemployed, 9% of college-educated men in the U.S., 14% of high school graduates, and 25% of dropouts are not in the labor market. (The figures for women are skewed by the number of married women who are at home full time, so I 'm sticking to the figures for men.)

I'd be interested to know whether this includes retirees. Oh, wait, no, the German text says that it's the percentage of people able to work.

These figures seem more accurate to me than the ones claiming only 6% unemployment.

I wonder, though, whether the German figures cover only full-time employment or use the U.S. method of counting part-time workers as "employed," even if they'd rather be working full-time.