"The chart illustrates how high the proportion of residents who were out-of-work and the number of citizens who emigrated abroad over a period of 2 decades from 1988.
Overall
, the number of people leaving Linking Words
this
country and its unemployment rate correlated strongly, with changes in the former lagging two Linking Words
years
behind the latter.
Looking first at the emigration numbers and the rate of Irish residents who were between jobs in the first 14 Use synonyms
years
. The former commenced the period with its highest number of 60,000, Use synonyms
while
the latter was almost 18%. Linking Words
Thereafter
, there was a sharp fall to 13% in 1990 in joblessness, followed by a subtle recovery to 15%, before reaching a nadir of over 5% in 2000 and maintained at Linking Words
this
level for 2 Linking Words
years
. Correspondingly, emigration saw a substantial decline to 350,000 in 1992, but rose marginally 2 Use synonyms
years
later, and Use synonyms
then
hitting a trough of 25,000 in 2002.
Towards the end of Linking Words
this
period, the changes observed earlier in the unemployment rate remained, or slightly rose at best. Linking Words
By contrast
, there was a marked increase in emigration numbers, ending at 50,000, but Linking Words
this
was still lower than its starting point's figure."Linking Words
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