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Europe > Poland > Labor

POLISH LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 19% [14th of 77]
Days off work 7 days [18th of 20]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 24.13 [105th of 162]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 66.2 % Time series [41st of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 17.4 % Time series [17th of 94]
Female decision makers 33% [22nd of 67]
force with tertiary education > % of total 12.9 % Time series [33rd of 52]
force, total 17,338,370 Time series [33rd of 184]
Labor force 16,860,000 Time series [29th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 16.1%, industry 29%, services 54.9%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 29% Time series [3rd of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 54.9% Time series [6th of 29]
Long term unemployment 6.1% [4th of 27]
Strikes 6 [22nd of 27]
Unemployment gender ratio 126% [12th of 30]
Unemployment rate 12.8% Time series [9th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 17.7 % Time series [1st of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
20 business days, 26 business days after 10 years of employment
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 598,000,000 $ Time series [37th of 149]
Youth unemployment 35.2% [1st 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; 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; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; OECD; 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 ;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Poland, Republic of Poland, Rzeczpospolita Polska, Polska

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