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Finance committee  This is true even if you look at those who are no longer in school. What you said is right, but if you focus your attention on non-full-time students, you will still find the same pattern.

Finance committee  First of all, it is accurate. However, usually when we look at the wage differences between genders, we standardize for the type of occupation, among other things, that men and women hold. In these charts, we haven't done that exercise. Part of the gender difference is still related to the fact that young women are in high-paying occupations to a lesser extent than men, and that plays a part.

Finance committee  Apart from unemployment, the extent to which youth are employed full time is another indicator of their success or lack thereof on the labour market. This slide answers the following question: of all young individuals who are not full-time students, what percentage had a full-time job from 1976 to 2013?