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Africa > Nigeria > Labor

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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [66th of 77]
Female economic activity growth 2% [82nd of 156]
Parental leave > Paid maternity leave 12 weeks
Regulation 43 [94th of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 76 [61st of 123]
Regulation > Firing 36 [60th of 123]
Regulation > Hiring 17 [121st of 123]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date October 17, 1960
Rigidity of employment index 21 ... [136th of 166]
Service workers > Female 87% [9th of 79]
Service workers > Male 66% [6th of 79]
Share of women employed in the nonagricultural sector > % of total nonagricultural employment 34 % ... [113rd of 174]
Technicians in R&D > per million people 68.45 per million people ... [6th of 49]
Unemployment rate 5.8 % [126th of 182]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 15.4 % ... [21st of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 18 % ... [3rd of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 16.9 % ... [8th of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 18,000,000 $ ... [109th of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 3,329,000,000 $ ... [21st of 156]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 3,328,694,000 BoP $ ... [11th of 115]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. 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; 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.; 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: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 ; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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