Again, if France had been as flexible as America, its unemployment rate would have been 1.7 percentage points lower (equivalent to roughly half the gap that then existed).

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According to these data, the earnings gap between those with degrees and those with only GSCE or equivalent was 85% in 2010, indicating that there remains a significant economic return to advanced education, though the gap has substantially narrowed since 1993, when it was 95%.

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The performance gap between youth with the least and most parental education in the United States was the equivalent of 15 years of additional schooling.

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