Comment on China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs

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thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Don’t know how they did the calculations here, but in Norway we have statistics for unemployment that goes down to 16 year olds.

However in those statistics, a person is only considered unemployed if they are not attending school. Our equivalent of high school is not mandatory, so a few people (very few) decide to quit school and begin working at 16. Some further people are high school dropouts that get jobs at 16-19.

So basically: You’re counted as unemployed if you’re not in a job or education.

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