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Europe > Netherlands > Labor

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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [59th of 77]
Days off work 1 days [19th of 20]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 2.45 [158th of 162]
Female decision makers 27% [36th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 5% [63rd of 156]
Long term unemployment 0.9% [20th of 27]
Service workers > Male 63% [11th of 79]
Strikes 4 [23rd of 27]
Temporary employment share 13.8% [9th of 26]
Unemployment 2.6% [17th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 161% [5th of 30]
Work time > Market-oriented 48% [24th of 29]
Work Time > More than 40 hours 36.9% [13th of 18]
Work time > Non-market-oriented 52% [7th of 29]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 5,678,000,000 $ ... [10th of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 2,227,000,000 $ ... [32nd of 156]
Working mothers 66 [6th of 23]
Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In the EU > Fatalities 60 [8th of 15]
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities 2 per 100,000 employees [11th of 15]
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; 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 (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; OECD; 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; 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; ILO, Key Indicators; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Workplace safety ;

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

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