NationMaster Factoids Feed: Labor

Factoid #228

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:27:48 +0000

61.5% of Swedes work more than 40 hours per week, but just across the border in Norway only 15.8% of people work this long.

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:17:12 +0000

If you are looking for work, just go to the Falkland Islands! They have full employment and a labor shortage.

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:24:33 +0000

In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator for it.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:18:33 +0000

More than a third of the time, Icelanders don't show up for work. Perhaps that's why they're the world's happiest nation.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:03:32 +0000

Danish workers strike 150 times more than their German neighbours.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:54:32 +0000

Southern European women hugely outnumber their menfolk amongst the unemployed.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:54:11 +0000

American women have the most powerful jobs.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:53:36 +0000

Women are flooding into the workforce in many Muslim countries.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:53:18 +0000

Looking for Czech and Slovak men? Half are in factories.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:52:48 +0000

Ethiopians are by far the most agricultural people on earth (both men and women)