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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [67th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 3.91 [156th of 162]
Female decision makers 27% [40th of 67]
force with tertiary education > % of total 23.8 % Time series [19th of 52]
force, total 40,991,820 Time series [13th of 184]
Gender division of housework 2.1 [7th of 13]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 2.8%, industry 33.4%, services 63.8%
Long term unemployment 3.9% [9th of 27]
Strikes 2 [26th of 27]
Trade union membership 26% [11th of 18]
Unemployment 7.7% [4th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 113% [16th of 30]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 9.8 % Time series [28th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
4 weeks (24 "workable" days, i.e. Mo to Sa, even if the working week is Mo to Fri), plus 9 to 13 bank holidays
Work Time > More than 40 hours 43.7% [11th of 18]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 12,519,000,000 $ Time series [4th of 149]
Working time to buy a car 861 hours [15th of 16]
Working time to buy a television set 32 hours [5th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 30 minutes [16th of 16]
Youth unemployment 7.7% [22nd of 30]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; Economic activity rate and economically active population, by sex, thirteen age groups, 1950-2010 (ILO estimates and projections) are data from the International Labour Union (ILO). Source details: ILO, Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, fourth edition, diskette database (Geneva, 1997). The latest set of estimates and projections covering the period 1950-2010 (4th edition) was released by ILO in December 1996. These data are updated every five-ten years by ILO and a new set of these data is in preparation; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; Jeanne A. Batalova and Philip N. Cohen, 'Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective', Journal of Marriage and Family 64, August 2002, p.748; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; OECD; Figures are from the OECD. The figures are from EIRO for France, Ireland and Italy; OECD Historical Statistics; calculated on the basis of data on male and female unemployment rates from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook 2001. Paris; Wikipedia: Vacation ; ILO, Key Indicators; International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002);

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Deutschland, west germany

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