Things get crazy when the government controls things.

25 or so years ago I knew someone who was from the Netherlands. He had a Chemistry degree. At some point, the need for chemists dried up, and he was unemployed for a long time, 2-3 years, maybe more. In his home country, he was not allowed to take a job outside of his training - he was a Chemist, the country had paid for his degree to be a chemist, and he could just sit tight and receive (generous) unemployment benefits for as long as it took for a job for a chemist to open up. And he wasn't allowed to go back to school to get a degree for which he would be able to find a job.

So he eventually moved to the US, got an additional degree in IT, had a job upon graduation, and only returns to the Netherlands to visit his family.