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Agricultural workers > Female
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7% |
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[35th of 77]
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Compensation of employees > % of expense
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17.09 %
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[47th of 97]
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DEFINITION: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees. |
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SOURCE: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002 |
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Days off work
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16 days |
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[15th of 20]
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DEFINITION: Number of days not worked for every 1000 salaried employees. Selected OECD countries only. Data for 2000. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus
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51.08 |
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[55th of 162]
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DEFINITION: Economically active population ("usually active" or "currently active" (currently active is also known as "the labour force")) comprises all persons of either sex above a specified age who furnish the supply of labour for the production of economic goods |
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SOURCE: OECD |
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Female decision makers
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24% |
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[50th of 67]
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DEFINITION: Female legislators, senior officials and managers (as % of total). Data refer to the latest year available during the period 1991-2000. Those for countries that have implemented the recent International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) are not strictly comparable with those for countries using the previous classification (ISCO-68). |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Female economic activity growth
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16% |
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[24th of 156]
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DEFINITION: The % change in the female economic activity rate (aged 15 and above) from 1990 to 2000. |
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SOURCE: calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002 |
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force with tertiary education > % of total
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15.4 %
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[30th of 52]
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DEFINITION: Labor force with tertiary education is the proportion of labor force that has a tertiary education, as a percentage of the total labor force. |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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force, total
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42,262,110
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[12th of 184]
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DEFINITION: Total labor force comprises people who meet the International Labour Organization definition of the economically active population: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period. It includes both the employed and the unemployed. While national practices vary in the treatment of such groups as the armed forces and seasonal or part-time workers, in general the labor force includes the armed forces, the unemployed, and first-time job-seekers, but excludes homemakers and other unpaid caregivers and workers in the informal sector. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
Labor force > By occupation agriculture 18%, industry 24%, services 58% |
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DEFINITION: Component parts of the labor force by occupation. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Parental leave > Paid maternity leave
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12 weeks |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Regulation
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77 |
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[6th of 123]
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DEFINITION: This statistic is an average of "Regulation - Hiring", "Regulation - Firing", and "Regulation - Employment Conditions". Nations are listed with an Employment Laws Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation regulates Employment. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Parental leave
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Regulation > Employment Conditions
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81 |
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[50th of 123]
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DEFINITION: Nations are listed with a Conditions of Employment Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation regulates conditions of employment. |
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SOURCE: 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. |
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Rigidity of employment index
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38
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[80th of 166]
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DEFINITION: The rigidity of employment index measures the regulation of employment, specifically the hiring and firing of workers and the rigidity of working hours. This index is the average of three subindexes: a difficulty of hiring index, a rigidity of hours index, and a difficulty of firing index. The index ranges from 0 to 100, with higher values indicating more rigid regulations. |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Strikes
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22 |
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[17th of 27]
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DEFINITION: Strikes five-year average in days not worked per 1000 employees (1996-2000) |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Unemployment gender ratio
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117% |
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[14th of 30]
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DEFINITION: Female unemployment rate as a % of the male unemployment rate. |
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SOURCE: OECD |
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Unemployment, female > % of female labor force
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3.4 %
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[70th of 95]
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DEFINITION: Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country. |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Unemployment, total > % of total labor force
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3 %
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[74th of 101]
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DEFINITION: Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
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7 days |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$
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7,000,000 $
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[77th of 149]
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DEFINITION: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. WorkersÂ’ remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers who are residents of the host country to recipients in their country of origin. They include only transfers made by workers who have been living in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. MigrantsÂ’ transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Vacation
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Youth unemployment
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4.4% |
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[30th of 30]
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DEFINITION: Youth unemployment rate |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |