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How many unemployed people are without work experience?

On this side of the pond, as I imagine it is on your side, the issue is complex. There is a continuing influx of young people with little or no job experience, but there is also a large body of experienced workers who are, quite frankly, considered old.What we are seeing here is a rush of early retirement, people applying for Social Security at the first possible minimum age. We have a very large body of unemployed folk that are unemployed because they are thought to be overqualified.

A basic question.If someone can fill the requirements of an unpaid job, aren't they also capable of filling the same position in a paid job.

If you look at your table it appears that there are two outliers, the UK and the US.One argument made here is that paying folk not to work discourages folk from working and so will end up with no one willing to work to create the base to pay those not working. Yet Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are among the most productive and most industrialized nations today.So is anyone asking them how they seem to be able to do what is claimed to be impossible in the US and UK?