In the OECD countries, the average rate of employment for university-educated men aged 25 to 64 is 15 percentage points higher than that of their peers with only a lower-secondary-school qualification; for women, the difference is 30 points.
The fact that people with higher levels of education are more likely to be in work reflects their increased propensity to participate in the labour market and, in the case of adults, the smaller risk of unemployment.