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2 EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Pages 7-10

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... were retired. English, modern languages/literature, and history had the highest retirement rates (10 to 11 percent)
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... One-third of English doctorates working part-time gave this reason compared with 1 8 percent of music doctorates so employed. Unemployment Rates When those who were retired and those who were not employed and not seeking work are removed from the data set, the residual is the labor force.
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... Among recent graduates, the maTe/femaTe disparity was similar, but overall rates 4.4 percent of recent female graduates were unemployed compared with were higher: 1.7 percent of recent male graduates. Those who graduated between 1990 and 1994 had higher unemployment rates: 3.0 percent were unemployed.
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