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Between 2008 and 2011 unemployment rates climbed steeply in most countries covered in this edition of Education at a Glance: Highlights and have remained high ever since. Young people have been particularly hard-hit by un- and underemployment as a result of the global recession. In 2011, the average proportion of 15-29 year-olds neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) across the OECD was 16%; among 25-29 year-olds, 20% were NEET. In some countries the figures are much higher, with more than one in three people between the ages of 25 and 29 neither in education nor in work. These young people are forced to pay a very high price for a crisis that was not of their making, with long-lasting effects on their skills, work morale and social integration.
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