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Figure 5: Unemployment rates, males, 1990—1998
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creation and typically exhibits higher educational requirements.
Secondly, because of the low educational level of older workers, the
possibilities for training and acquiring skills are limited. The
problem of low educational attainment is more acute among older
women, as almost 8 out of 10 of them have failed to progress beyond
basic schooling. Young women, however, have made a lot of
progress and appear to have acquired higher educational levels than
their male counterparts.
Progress in achieving higher educational levels is rising fast in Greece,
even among older workers, but despite this the educational gap
between Greece and the EU has not become narrower in recent years.
Figure 6: Unemployment rates, females, 1990—1998
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Total 55—59 60—64 65—69 ++ 70—74 75+
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Trends
The proportion of older people aged 55 to 64 participating in
education and training is particularly small in Greece, 0.1% as
opposed to 3% in EU-15. Furthermore, no progress appears to have
been made in the numbers of older people participating in
education and training since at least 1992, the first year for which
comparable data exist. Further adult education structures are not
very well developed in Greece, and this is reflected in the proportion
of the adult population aged 25 to 64 participating in education and
training over the four weeks period prior to the LFS (1.4% in Greece
as opposed to 8.4% in EU-15).
The chances of someone becoming unemployed as they grow older
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1990
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1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
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1998
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Total 55—59 60—64 65—69 ++ 70—74 75+
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Source: NSSG, LFS
Source: NSSG, LFS