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Middle East > Syria > Labor

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Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 32.68 [85th of 162]
Female economic activity growth 21% [15th of 156]
Regulation > Hiring 33 [113rd of 123]
regulations > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 33.04 % ... [3rd of 39]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date June 7, 1957
Rigidity of employment index 30 ... [110th of 166]
Share of women employed in the nonagricultural sector > % of total nonagricultural employment 18.2 % ... [123rd of 174]
skills > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 36.07 % ... [2nd of 38]
Technicians in R&D > per million people 24.24 per million people ... [35th of 49]
Unemployment rate 12.5 % [61st of 182]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 9.8 % ... [56th of 77]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 28.3 % ... [4th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 9 % ... [41st of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 12.3 % ... [23rd of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 38.9 % ... [9th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 21.4 % ... [18th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 26.3 % ... [15th of 77]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 40,000,000 $ ... [91st of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 823,000,000 $ ... [62nd of 156]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 763,000,000 BoP $ ... [39th of 115]

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SOURCES: 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 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; 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; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 ; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Syria, Syrian Arab Republic, Al Jumhuriyah al Arabiyah as Suriyah, Suriyah

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