The line graph demonstrates the unemployment ratio of all workers and three categories: Professional, Manual and Self-employed in the EU from 1990 to 1999.
Overall, it is evident that the majority of sections witnessed an upward trend before decreasing, excepting self-employed ones, which remained stable after increasing. Moreover, the rate of unemployed manual workers was the highest, while that of professional workers was the lowest over the period.
Initially, the employment levels of overall and manual workers experienced growth patterns throughout the period. To be more specific, that of manual workers started at 7.5% that was 3% higher than the all workers ones. After that, the figure for unemployed manual workers surged dramatically and reached the peak at around 14.2% in 1994, then fell considerably to approximately 8.2%. Following this, it remained unchanged before increasing slightly and finishing at roughly 9.8%. Meanwhile, there was a moderate decline to 4% in the proportion of all unemployed workers, which was followed by a remarkable climb to about 12.2% and ending at 10%.
In terms of the remaining categories, the unemployment percentage of self-employed and professional workers began at 6% and 2% respectively. The former decreased steadily to around 4.5% in 1992, then rose noticeably to approximately 12.4% that was equal to the overall figure and remained fairly stable until the end. Regarding the proportion of unemployed professional workers, it witnessed a minimal drop to about 1% in 1992 and a significant growth as well as reaching a highest point at 5% in 1997. Afterwards, it declined moderately and culminated with 2%.