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Europe > United Kingdom > Labor

BRITISH LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 1% [73rd of 77]
Agricultural workers > Male 2% [76th of 78]
Compensation of employees > % of expense 14.97 % Time series [51st of 97]
Compensation of employees > current LCU 74329000000 Time series
Days off work 21 days [14th of 20]
Employees, agriculture, female > % of female employment 0.7 % Time series [50th of 86]
Employees, agriculture, male > % of male employment 1.9 % Time series [52nd of 86]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 9.4 % Time series [48th of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 33 % Time series [26th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 89.6 % Time series [5th of 86]
Employees, services, male > % of male employment 64.8 % Time series [7th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 1.4 % Time series [55th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 22 % Time series [35th of 94]
Employment in services > % of total employment 76.3 % Time series [6th of 94]
employment rate > Source / date of > information 2003 OECD .
Employment rate of highly educated women 86.4% [7th of 18]
Employment rate of lesser educated women 49.7% [15th of 18]
Female decision makers 33% [21st of 67]
Female doctors 34.5% [8th of 18]
Female economic activity 52.8% [80th of 156]
Female economic activity growth 5% [65th of 156]
Female professionals 45% [51st of 68]
Firing cost > weeks of wages 22.1 weeks of wages Time series [122nd of 164]
force participation rate, female > % of female population ages 15-64 69.34 % Time series [38th of 184]
force participation rate, male > % of male population ages 15-64 81.86 % Time series [98th of 184]
force participation rate, total > % of total population ages 15-64 75.56 % Time series [41st of 184]
force with primary education > % of total 17.5 % Time series [28th of 48]
force with secondary education > % of total 47.4 % Time series [16th of 51]
force with tertiary education > % of total 26.8 % Time series [13th of 52]
force, female > % of total labor force 45.99 % Time series [51st of 184]
force, total 30,644,970 Time series [17th of 184]
    force, total (per capita) 0.509 per capita Time series [29th of 184]
Foreign labor force 3.7 [13th of 23]
Gender division of housework 2.11 [6th of 13]
Hours worked 1,673 hours [5th of 9]
Industrial workers > Female 12% [52nd of 79]
Industrial workers > Male 36% [23rd of 79]
Labor force 30,890,000 Time series [16th of 132]
    Labor force (per capita) 508,257.849 per million people Time series [39th of 131]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 1.5%, industry 19.1%, services 79.5%
Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture 1.4% Time series [24th of 32]
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 18.2% Time series [15th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 80.4% Time series [1st of 29]
Long term unemployment 1.5% [15th of 27]
Long term unemployment > Share 27.7% [14th of 28]
Long-term unemployment > % of total unemployment 23 % Time series [20th of 48]
Long-term unemployment, female > % of female unemployment 17.1 % Time series [21st of 46]
Long-term unemployment, male > % of male unemployment 26.5 % Time series [18th of 46]
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Date June 7, 2000
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Minimum age 16 [7th of 146]
Parental leave > Paid maternity leave
6 weeks (90%) 20 weeks at a fixed amount (as of March 2006 = £108.85)
Parental leave > Paid paternity leave
2 weeks at a fixed amount (as of March 2006 = £108.85)
Parental leave > Restrictions
For paid leave must have paid social contributions (National Insurance) for 26 weeks or more before the 15th week before the due date. Must give employer notice. Both parents can have additional 13 weeks unpaid leave per year if they have worked for an employer for over 1 year for a child under 6.
Parental leave > Unpaid maternity leave 26 weeks
Regulation 28 [117th of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 42 [113rd of 123]
Regulation > Firing 9 [119th of 123]
Regulation > Hiring 33 [97th of 123]
Researchers in labor force 55 per 10000 people [12th of 18]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date June 30, 1950
Rigidity of employment index 14 Time series [147th of 166]
Service workers > Female 87% [8th of 79]
Service workers > Male 61% [18th of 79]
Share of women employed in the nonagricultural sector > % of total nonagricultural employment 49.4 % Time series [22nd of 174]
Strikes 22 [18th of 27]
Technicians in R&D > per million people 1,013.9 per million people Time series [3rd of 49]
Temporary employment share 6.7% [21st of 26]
Total work time > Females 413 minutes [23rd of 29]
Total work time > Females over males 100% [25th of 29]
Total work time > Males 411 minutes [17th of 29]
Trade union membership 29% [10th of 18]
Unemployment 5.3% [9th of 18]
Unemployment and education > Tertiary 2.1% [12th of 18]
Unemployment and education > Upper secondary 4.5% [10th of 18]
Unemployment benefit as % of GDP 0.3 % of GDP [17th of 18]
Unemployment benefit replacement 18 [16th of 20]
Unemployment gender ratio 79% [29th of 30]
Unemployment rate 5.3% Time series [57th of 107]
Unemployment with secondary education, female > % of female unemployment 47.2 % Time series [29th of 71]
Unemployment with secondary education, male > % of male unemployment 42.7 % Time series [30th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 14.6 % Time series [37th of 77]
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment 13.8 % Time series [38th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of male unemployment 15.1 % Time series [29th of 71]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 4.2 % Time series [65th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 5 % Time series [59th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 4.6 % Time series [65th of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 10 % Time series [45th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 13.4 % Time series [37th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 11.8 % Time series [41st of 77]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
20 calendar days, plus 8 bank holidays
Work time > Market-oriented 51% [19th of 29]
Work Time > More than 40 hours 49.8% [9th of 18]
Work time > Non-market-oriented 49% [16th of 29]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 3,087,000,000 $ Time series [14th of 149]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per $ GDP) 1.404 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [110th of 166]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per capita) 51.257 $ per 1,000 people Time series [48th of 167]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 6,722,000,000 $ Time series [8th of 156]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per $ GDP) 3.057 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [123rd of 165]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per capita) 111.612 $ per capita Time series [54th of 167]
Working mothers 55 [12th of 23]
Working time to buy a car 956 hours [14th of 16]
Working time to buy a refrigerator 45 hours [4th of 15]
Working time to buy a television set 28 hours [7th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 52 minutes [10th of 16]
Working time to buy bread 4 minutes [16th of 16]
Working time to buy chicken 24 minutes [6th of 16]
Working time to buy fish 55 minutes [9th of 15]
Working time to buy milk 3 minutes [14th of 16]
Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In the EU > Fatalities 182 [6th of 15]
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities 1.1 per 100,000 employees [15th of 15]
Youth unemployment 11.8% [16th of 30]

SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; OECD; 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 ; 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; 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 ;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, britain, great britain, united kingdom of great britain and northern irela, united king., The United Kingdom

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