The line chart illustrates the number of unemployed workers who are professionals, manual workers, self-employed and all workers in the EO from 1990 to 1999.
Overall, it is clear that the figure for professional workers stood last, while other categories experienced an increase, before the decline in the percentage of manual workers in 1994. It is also apparent that the figures for all workers and self-employed workers were similar before the decrease in the former in 1997.
The percentage for manual workers grew moderately to around 15% in 1994 from approximately 7,1% in 1990, standing first and reaching its own peak, before experiencing a decrease to just above 8% in 1996. The figure stayed the same for three years, from 1996 to 1998. Thereafter, in 1999 it climbed to just below 10%. In the meantime, the percentages for professional workers remained the same at the beginning of the period accounting for just below the 2%. In 1992, however, it saw a slight decline, before a gradual rise. In 1997, it hit its maximum by just under 6% and dropped to around 1,9% in 1999.
The figures for all employers and self-employed workers were similar, starting from 6% and 5% in 1990. The figures increased slightly to just over 6 %(self-employed) and under 6%(all employers) in 1991, before a drop to 5 and 4 percent in 1992. Afterwards, the lines grew to around 13% for the former and approximately 12,2% for the latter in 1997. While the numbers of self-employed workers remained stable from 1997 to 1999, the figure for all workers fell to 10% in 1999.