And, as Iraq observer Joel Wing has pointed out, public-sector employment doubled from 2005 to 2010, and now accounts for roughly 60% of the full-time labor force. The brain drain among Iraq’s educated youth has accelerated in the last ten years, because many of them simply see no future in the country.
同样，伊拉克失业及就业不足的比率在中东地区依然是最高的。伊拉克观察家乔尔·韦恩指出，公共部门就业从2005到2010年翻了一番，现在占到全职劳动力约60%的份额。 伊拉克受教育青年10年来人才外流加剧，因为很多人根本看不到国家的未来在何处。