The employment to population ratio, for men and women, has been higher in Great Britain than in the U.S. since 2002 and the gap is widening.

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The employment to population ratio of men age 16 to 64 fell by 10.3 percentage points between 1979 and 1983 (compared to 5.1 percentage points in the U.S.).

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By 1990 the employment to population ratio for adult men had regained about half of the losses incurred during the recession and the unemployment rate had fallen to 7.1%.

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