high rates of economic growth and increasing incomes during the first decade of the s help to explain the reduction in labour force participation of the population aged and above see also chapter the same is suggested by the pattern of unemployment across age groups the ratio of the youth unemployment rate to the adult unemployment rate was close to two for both foreignbom and ghanaianborn workers in but had become far less favourable in for young ghanaianbom workers than for foreignbom workers and respectively table