The paper present the evolution of two characteristics, the unemployment rate
and the medium level of education rate also in European Union (28 countries) and
particularly in Romania. The analyzed was made during six years, between 2008 and 2013.
At the end of the paper it was applied a correlation coefficient in order to demonstrate if
there is any link between the two characteristics. The results show that also in the European
Union, as well as in Romania the evolution of the two characteristics has almost the same
tendency during the entire period. Also the Pearson correlation coefficient shows that
between the two indicators, the unemployment rate and the medium level of education rate
there is a negative link but with a very small value which get us to the conclusion that the
correlation is insignificant.