On Trickling Chimneys and Other Unemployment Misery

1 by country (European Union), by sector of industry, occupation (ISCO 68/88), age and highest level of education attained (corresponding to the ISCED educational classification). The data have been provided only for the period 1988-1994, because Eurostat did not perform an educational desaggregation of (unemployment t data for earlier years. In 1992, two major changes occurred in the classification of the data. First, the classification of sectors of industry changed from NACE-CLIO to NACE-Revision 1. Second, the classification of occupations changed from ISCO 68 to ISCO 88. In the data available, skills refer to the highest level of education attained by workers. We distinguish between a high (H), medium (M) and low (L) level of acquired education. The high educational level corresponds with high vocational and university education. The low educational level corresponds to primary school and low secondary school (up to age 16). Medium education is everything in between.