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More education is correlated with higher levels of employment, as evidencedin the immediate transition to working life, by level of education…One year after completing Employed Unemployed Full-timestudentA degree or qualification,By level of education in 2007General upper secondary school 44,10% 1,90% 38,40%Upper secondary vocational school 74,50% 9,30% 7,10%Polytechnic Degree (Bachelors) 88,70% 4,50% 3,40%University Degree (Bachelors) 74,30% 1,60% 22,50%University Degree (Masters) 87,70% 3,70% 4,60%Licentiate Degree 86,00% 3,20% 7,50%Doctorate Degree 87,40% 1,60% 1,60%…and later in life, among 25-29 year olds, by level of education.SourceStatistics Finland,EducationStatistics(2009-3-25)Unemployed, by level of education (2007) Finland EU-27Primary Education 17,10% 15,20%upper secondary Education 8,50% 8,20%Higher Education 4,40% 6,30%Unemployment insurance benefits are not available to young dropoutsin Finland. A person must be at least eighteen years old and show proofthat he or she has worked for ten months within the preceding two years inorder to be eligible for a government stipend.SourceEurostat“Youth inEurope”(112)D3.3 Health and DropoutsThe Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (KTL), in its2006 summary Health in Finland draws a connection between poor schoolperformance and discontinuation with poor health and health habits laterin life.➢ Higher rates of smoking➢ Higher rates of binge drinking➢ Poor oral hygieneThe differentiation of health behaviour in adolescents begins at ages thirteento sixteen, at the latest. Those who finish their schooling early andthose who opt for a vocational training path, drink more often and, ingeneral, lead a less healthy life than their age peers who continue to uppersecondary school [Health in Finland, 117]172