Passage: Estonia has around 600,000 employees, yet the country has a shortage of skilled labor, and since skill shortages are experienced everywhere in Europe, the government has increased working visa quota for non-EEA citizens, although it has nevertheless been criticized for being inadequate for addressing the shortages. The late-2000s recession in the world, the near-concurrent local property bust with changes in Estonian legislation to increase labour market flexibility  saw Estonia's unemployment rate shoot up to 18.8% throughout the duration of the crisis, then stabilise to 13.8% by summer 2011, as the economy recovered on the basis of strong exports. Internal consumption, and therefore imports, plummeted; and cuts were made in public finances. Some of the reduction in unemployment has been attributed to some Estonians' emigrating for employment to Finland, the UK, Australia, and elsewhere. After the recession, the unemployment rate went lower, and throughout 2015 and 2016, the rate stayed near the levels that preceded the economic downturn, staying at just above 6%.
Approximately how many percentage points did the unemployment rate drop between 2011 and 2016? How many percentage points difference is there between the unemployment rate throughout the crisis and what it was in 2016? How many percentage points higher did Estonia's unemployment rate peak at compared to the 13.8% it stabiized at? How many percentage points is the difference between the unemployment rate throughout the crisis and the rate in 2011? How many percentage points more was the unemployment rate through the crisis than it was in summer 2011? How many years did it take for the unemployment rate to drop from 13.8% to just above 6%? Was the unemployment rate in Estonia higher in summer 2011 or in 2015? What lowered the unemployment rate? Which occurred first, the changes to legislation increasing labour market flexibility, or and increase in the unemployment rate?