NationMaster - Italian Labor statistics

Agricultural workers > Female	4%	[48th of 77]
Days off work	59 days	[10th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment	4.2 %	[42nd of 94]
Female decision makers	19%	[58th of 67]
force, total	24,439,710	[22nd of 184]
Gender division of housework	1.74	[12th of 13]
Hours worked	1,591 hours	[6th of 9]
Labor force	24,740,000	[19th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation agriculture 5%, industry 32%, services 63%
Strikes	76	[9th of 27]
Trade union membership	35%	[8th of 18]
Unemployment	10.3%	[1st of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio	180%	[3rd of 30]
Unemployment rate	6.2%	[49th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force	8 %	[40th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 20-30 days plus 12 public holidays
Work Time > More than 40 hours	63.8%	[5th of 18]
Working time to buy a car	989 hours	[13th of 16]
Working time to buy a television set	44 hours	[3rd of 15]
Youth unemployment	29.7%	[3rd of 30]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; OECD; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; 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; 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);

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