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Europe > Netherlands > Labor

DUTCH LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [59th of 77]
Days off work 1 days [19th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 3 % Time series [47th of 94]
Female decision makers 27% [36th of 67]
force, total 8,611,269 Time series [49th of 184]
Gender division of housework 2.04 [8th of 13]
Labor force 7,604,000 Time series [44th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 4%, industry 23%, services 73%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 21% Time series [15th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 76% Time series [3rd of 29]
Long term unemployment 0.9% [20th of 27]
Strikes 4 [23rd of 27]
Trade union membership 25% [13th of 18]
Unemployment 2.6% [17th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 161% [5th of 30]
Unemployment rate 4.6% Time series [63rd of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 4.3 % Time series [80th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 4 weeks
Work Time > More than 40 hours 36.9% [13th of 18]
Youth unemployment 6.6% [24th 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 (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; 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;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Nederland, the netherlands

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