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Europe > Ireland > Labor

IRISH LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [60th of 77]
Agricultural workers > Male 12% [37th of 78]
Compensation of employees > % of expense 23.98 % Time series [34th of 97]
Compensation of employees > current LCU 11784120000 Time series
Days off work 72 days [8th of 20]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 15-19 22.88 [141st of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 20-24 76.43 [61st of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 25-29 82.99 [78th of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 30-34 78.51 [111st of 165]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 35-39 70.73 [148th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 40-44 66.73 [155th of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 45-49 65.22 [150th of 163]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 50-54 60.1 [148th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 55-59 49.13 [145th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 60-64 34.44 [119th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 65 plus 7.19 [138th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 15-19 25.62 [137th of 164]
Economic activity > Men aged 20-24 78.88 [138th of 166]
Economic activity > Men aged 25-29 95.35 [85th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 30-34 96.75 [114th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 35-39 96.15 [144th of 164]
Economic activity > Men aged 40-44 94.79 [146th of 163]
Economic activity > Men aged 45-49 93.12 [146th of 167]
Economic activity > Men aged 50-54 87.35 [141st of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 55-59 77.04 [135th of 167]
Economic activity > Men aged 60-64 56.92 [114th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 13.62 [126th of 162]
Economic activity > Women aged 20-24 73.85 [43rd of 166]
Economic activity > Women aged 25-29 69.95 [79th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 30-34 59.1 [113rd of 167]
Economic activity > Women aged 35-39 45.27 [145th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 40-44 38.99 [150th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 45-49 36.82 [142nd of 161]
Economic activity > Women aged 50-54 32.61 [143rd of 166]
Economic activity > Women aged 55-59 20.53 [145th of 167]
Economic activity > Women aged 60-64 12.24 [137th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 65 plus 2.43 [147th of 167]
Employees, agriculture, female > % of female employment 1.3 % Time series [47th of 86]
Employees, agriculture, male > % of male employment 9.3 % Time series [28th of 86]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 12.3 % Time series [36th of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 39.3 % Time series [9th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 85.8 % Time series [14th of 86]
Employees, services, male > % of male employment 50.6 % Time series [32nd of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 5.9 % Time series [33rd of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 27.8 % Time series [20th of 94]
Employment in services > % of total employment 65.6 % Time series [26th of 94]
employment rate > Source / date of > information 2003 OECD .
Employment rate of highly educated women 79.9% [14th of 18]
Employment rate of lesser educated women 33.7% [18th of 18]
Female decision makers 34% [17th of 67]
Female doctors 35.7% [5th of 18]
Female economic activity 37.1% [131st of 156]
Female economic activity growth 15% [25th of 156]
Female professionals 50% [32nd of 68]
Firing cost > weeks of wages 49 weeks of wages Time series [67th of 164]
force participation rate, female > % of female population ages 15-64 62.18 % Time series [69th of 184]
force participation rate, male > % of male population ages 15-64 80.41 % Time series [111st of 184]
force participation rate, total > % of total population ages 15-64 71.34 % Time series [73rd of 184]
force with primary education > % of total 30.9 % Time series [14th of 48]
force with secondary education > % of total 40.6 % Time series [25th of 51]
force with tertiary education > % of total 25.8 % Time series [15th of 52]
force, female > % of total labor force 42.97 % Time series [82nd of 184]
force, total 2,081,803 Time series [115th of 184]
    force, total (per capita) 0.501 per capita Time series [38th of 184]
Foreign labor force 3.7 [12th of 23]
Gender division of housework 1.83 [11th of 13]
Industrial workers > Female 15% [33rd of 79]
Industrial workers > Male 38% [16th of 79]
Labor force 2,217,000 Time series [88th of 132]
    Labor force (per capita) 539,536.043 per million people Time series [19th of 131]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 8%, industry 29%, services 64%
Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture 6% Time series [22nd of 32]
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 27% Time series [3rd of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 67% Time series [7th of 29]
Long term unemployment 5.6% [6th of 27]
Long term unemployment > Share 55.3% [2nd of 28]
Long-term unemployment > % of total unemployment 35.4 % Time series [12th of 48]
Long-term unemployment, female > % of female unemployment 26 % Time series [16th of 46]
Long-term unemployment, male > % of male unemployment 40.9 % Time series [11th of 46]
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Date June 22, 1978
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Minimum age 16 [25th of 146]
Parental leave > Paid maternity leave
22 weeks (26 weeks from March 2007)
Parental leave > Unpaid maternity leave
14 weeks that can be shared with father (16 weeks from March 2007)
Parental leave > Unpaid paternity leave
14 weeks that can be shared with mother (16 weeks from March 2007)
Regulation 49 [80th of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 68 [70th of 123]
Regulation > Firing 30 [77th of 123]
Regulation > Hiring 48 [67th of 123]
regulations > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 9.6 % Time series [14th of 39]
Researchers in labor force 51 per 10000 people [14th of 18]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date June 4, 1955
Rigidity of employment index 33 Time series [101st of 166]
Service workers > Female 82% [27th of 79]
Service workers > Male 50% [42nd of 79]
Share of women employed in the nonagricultural sector > % of total nonagricultural employment 47.6 % Time series [38th of 174]
skills > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 15.6 % Time series [8th of 38]
Strikes 90 [7th of 27]
Technicians in R&D > per million people 621.21 per million people Time series [13th of 49]
Temporary employment share 4.3% [24th of 26]
Trade union membership 45% [6th of 18]
Unemployment 4.6% [14th of 18]
Unemployment and education > Tertiary 1.9% [14th of 18]
Unemployment and education > Upper secondary 2.5% [16th of 18]
Unemployment benefit as % of GDP 1.7 % of GDP [7th of 18]
Unemployment benefit replacement 29 [12th of 20]
Unemployment gender ratio 97% [21st of 30]
Unemployment rate 4.6% Time series [62nd of 107]
Unemployment with secondary education, female > % of female unemployment 29.2 % Time series [30th of 71]
Unemployment with secondary education, male > % of male unemployment 22.6 % Time series [30th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 24 % Time series [8th of 77]
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment 32.2 % Time series [5th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of male unemployment 19.5 % Time series [9th of 71]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 3.7 % Time series [69th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 4.9 % Time series [60th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 4.4 % Time series [66th of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 7.3 % Time series [55th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 9.1 % Time series [51st of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 8.3 % Time series [52nd of 77]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
20 days, plus 9 public holidays
Work Time > More than 40 hours 38.4% [12th of 18]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 1,128,000,000 $ Time series [29th of 149]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per $ GDP) 5.589 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [62nd of 166]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per capita) 271.213 $ per 1,000 people Time series [15th of 167]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 651,000,000 $ Time series [68th of 156]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per $ GDP) 3.226 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [121st of 165]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per capita) 156.524 $ per capita Time series [39th of 167]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 24,907,360 BoP $ Time series [76th of 115]
    Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ (per $ GDP) 0.123 BoP $ per $1 million of Time series [89th of 142]
    Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ (per capita) 5.989 BoP $ per 1,000 people Time series [71st of 143]
Working mothers 44 [18th of 23]
Working time to buy a car 1,823 hours [1st of 16]
Working time to buy a refrigerator 45 hours [3rd of 15]
Working time to buy a television set 32 hours [6th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 77 minutes [6th of 16]
Working time to buy bread 11 minutes [6th of 16]
Working time to buy chicken 64 minutes [1st of 16]
Working time to buy fish 78 minutes [3rd of 15]
Working time to buy milk 4 minutes [10th of 16]
Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In the EU > Fatalities 52 [9th of 15]
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities 3.2 per 100,000 employees [4th of 15]
Youth unemployment 6.4% [26th of 30]

SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; 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; Wikipedia: List of countries by employment rate ; OECD Employment Outlook 2002, p.74; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; OECD Health Data 2002 (CD ROM) available year for Australia, Japan = 1998; Denmark = 1995; 1980 figures for Canada and France are interpolated; 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; 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; Wikipedia: Minimum Age Convention, 1973 ; 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; OECD; Wikipedia: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 ; Figures are from the OECD. The figures are from EIRO for France, Ireland and Italy; OECD Historical Statistics; OECD, Employment Outlook 2002 ; Annex to GECD Society at a Glance 2002; World Health Organization; 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; International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002); Wikipedia: Workplace safety ;

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