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Middle East > Israel > Labor

ISRAELI LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 1% [75th of 77]
Agricultural workers > Male 3% [73rd of 78]
Compensation of employees > % of expense 24.28 % Time series [33rd of 97]
Compensation of employees > current LCU 62757960000 Time series
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 15-19 19.84 [151st of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 20-24 70.02 [106th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 25-29 80.06 [98th of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 30-34 82.78 [92nd of 165]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 35-39 84.91 [81st of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 40-44 84.95 [81st of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 45-49 80.03 [95th of 163]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 50-54 73.37 [96th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 55-59 59.9 [90th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 60-64 40.31 [105th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 65 plus 10.58 [120th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 15-19 25.07 [140th of 164]
Economic activity > Men aged 20-24 76.69 [149th of 166]
Economic activity > Men aged 25-29 91.86 [149th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 30-34 96.1 [143rd of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 35-39 96.43 [135th of 164]
Economic activity > Men aged 40-44 96.22 [121st of 163]
Economic activity > Men aged 45-49 92.95 [150th of 167]
Economic activity > Men aged 50-54 90.18 [120th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 55-59 79.16 [119th of 167]
Economic activity > Men aged 60-64 60.87 [105th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 16.91 [118th of 162]
Economic activity > Women aged 15-19 14.32 [149th of 164]
Economic activity > Women aged 20-24 63.03 [85th of 166]
Economic activity > Women aged 25-29 67.85 [92nd of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 30-34 69.11 [88th of 167]
Economic activity > Women aged 35-39 73.25 [80th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 45-49 67.45 [81st of 161]
Economic activity > Women aged 50-54 57.28 [88th of 166]
Economic activity > Women aged 55-59 41.97 [83rd of 167]
Economic activity > Women aged 60-64 22.12 [96th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 65 plus 5.85 [105th of 167]
Employees, agriculture, female > % of female employment 0.8 % Time series [62nd of 86]
Employees, agriculture, male > % of male employment 3.1 % Time series [61st of 86]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 11.2 % Time series [53rd of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 31.6 % Time series [35th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 87.5 % Time series [12th of 86]
Employees, services, male > % of male employment 64.3 % Time series [11th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 2 % Time series [52nd of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 21.7 % Time series [39th of 94]
Employment in services > % of total employment 75.6 % Time series [9th of 94]
Female decision makers 26% [42nd of 67]
Female economic activity 48.4% [94th of 156]
Female economic activity growth 13% [33rd of 156]
Female professionals 55% [17th of 68]
Firing cost > weeks of wages 91 weeks of wages Time series [22nd of 164]
force participation rate, female > % of female population ages 15-64 58.69 % Time series [86th of 184]
force participation rate, male > % of male population ages 15-64 65.6 % Time series [180th of 184]
force participation rate, total > % of total population ages 15-64 62.13 % Time series [147th of 184]
force with primary education > % of total 14.4 % Time series [34th of 48]
force with secondary education > % of total 35.1 % Time series [30th of 51]
force with tertiary education > % of total 49.6 % Time series [2nd of 52]
force, female > % of total labor force 47.04 % Time series [30th of 184]
force, total 2,730,372 Time series [98th of 184]
    force, total (per capita) 0.394 per capita Time series [145th of 184]
Industrial workers > Female 12% [54th of 79]
Industrial workers > Male 35% [27th of 79]
Labor force 2,894,000 Time series [77th of 132]
    Labor force (per capita) 450,310.339 per million people Time series [63rd of 131]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 18.5%, industry 23.7%, services 50%, other 7.8%
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Date June 21, 1979
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Minimum age 15 [64th of 146]
Parental leave > Paid maternity leave 12 weeks
Regulation 38 [103rd of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 64 [80th of 123]
Regulation > Firing 16 [112nd of 123]
Regulation > Hiring 33 [105th of 123]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date January 28, 1957
Rigidity of employment index 27 Time series [119th of 166]
Service workers > Female 86% [17th of 79]
Service workers > Male 61% [20th of 79]
Share of women employed in the nonagricultural sector > % of total nonagricultural employment 49.6 % Time series [19th of 174]
Total work time > Females 375 minutes [28th of 29]
Total work time > Females over males 99% [26th of 29]
Total work time > Males 377 minutes [22nd of 29]
Unemployment rate 7.3% Time series [37th of 107]
Unemployment with secondary education, female > % of female unemployment 52 % Time series [25th of 71]
Unemployment with secondary education, male > % of male unemployment 45.9 % Time series [27th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 27 % Time series [15th of 77]
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment 31.1 % Time series [16th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of male unemployment 23 % Time series [16th of 71]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 11.3 % Time series [38th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 10.2 % Time series [27th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 10.7 % Time series [34th of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 18.6 % Time series [29th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 17 % Time series [24th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 17.8 % Time series [26th of 77]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 14 days
Work time > Market-oriented 51% [18th of 29]
Work time > Non-market-oriented 49% [15th of 29]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 2,349,000,000 $ Time series [19th of 149]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per $ GDP) 19.03 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [27th of 166]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per capita) 339.274 $ per 1,000 people Time series [12th of 167]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 851,000,000 $ Time series [61st of 156]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per $ GDP) 6.894 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [100th of 165]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per capita) 122.913 $ per capita Time series [49th of 167]

SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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; Wikipedia: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 ; 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; Wikipedia: Vacation

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Israel, State of Israel, Medinat Yisra'el, Yisra'el

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