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Europe > Latvia > Labor

LATVIAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 14% [20th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 20.35 [113rd of 162]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 16.2 % Time series [23rd of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 34.9 % Time series [19th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 74.8 % Time series [34th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 12.1 % Time series [25th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 25.8 % Time series [23rd of 94]
Female decision makers 37% [7th of 67]
force with tertiary education > % of total 19.9 % Time series [25th of 52]
force, total 1,093,094 Time series [136th of 184]
Labor force 1,167,000 Time series [102nd of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 15%, industry 25%, services 60%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 19% Time series [19th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 68% Time series [9th of 29]
Parental leave > Paid paternity leave 10 calendar days
Regulation 62 [26th of 123]
Unemployment rate 5.7% Time series [54th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 8.7 % Time series [5th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 4 weeks
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 20,000,000 $ Time series [107th of 149]

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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; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Parental leave ; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.; Wikipedia: Vacation

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Latvia, Republic of Latvia, Latvijas Republika, Latvija

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