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Asia > Korea, South > Labor

KOREAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 12% [26th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 32.4 [86th of 162]
Female decision makers 5% [66th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 10% [42nd of 156]
Service workers > Male 56% [31st of 79]
Strikes 95 [6th of 27]
Unemployment gender ratio 71% [30th of 30]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 3.1 % ... [71st of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 3.7 % ... [67th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 3.5 % ... [71st of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 9 % ... [50th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 12.3 % ... [40th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 10.2 % ... [46th of 77]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 10 working days
Work time > Market-oriented 64% [4th of 29]
Work time > Non-market-oriented 36% [27th of 29]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 3,336,000,000 $ ... [13th of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 808,000,000 $ ... [63rd of 156]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 67,600,000 BoP $ ... [70th of 115]
Youth unemployment 10.2% [18th 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; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; OECD; 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; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Vacation ; Harvey, Andrew S. 1995 ?Market and Non-Market Productive Activity in Less Developed and Developing Countries: Lessons from Time Use.? Background Paper for Human Development Report 1995. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, Goldshmidt-Clermont, Luisella, and Elisabetta Pagnossin Aligisakis. 1995. ?Measures of Unrecorded Economic Activities in Fourteen Countries.? Background paper for Human Development Report;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Korea, South, Republic of Korea, South Korea, Taehan-min'guk, korea, republic of, korea, rep. of, korea-south, SKOREA, Korea Republic, Korean Republic, Korea (Rep.), Korea

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