While Taiwan had only 55,000 long-term unemployed (defined as persons without work for more than one year) in 2005, the data showed that the proportion of long-term unemployed with at least a junior-college degree was on the rise. In fact, it increased from 18 % in 2001 to more than 36 % in 2006, when it for the first time surpassed the percentage of long-term unemployed with only a high-school diploma.
2005 年，全台灣僅有 5 萬 5 千名長期失業者（失業一年以上）；問題是其中「大專及以上學歷」失業者所佔比例，從 2001 年的近 18％到 2006 年超過 36％，首度超過高中職學歷者，這是過去從來沒有的現象。