Labor force 43,540,000 [13th 

of 132] Labor force > By occupation

agriculture 2.8%, industry 33.4%, services 63.8%

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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [67th of 77]

Agricultural workers > Male 3% [72nd of 78]

Compensation of employees > % of expense 5.38 % [72nd of 97]

Compensation of employees > current LCU 37700000000

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 15-19 34.23 [100th of 167]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 20-24 76.83 [57th of 166]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 25-29 83.14 [76th of 167]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 30-34 86.82 [68th of 165]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 35-39 88.34 [60th of 166]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 40-44 88.05 [59th of 167]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 45-49 86.18 [57th of 163]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 50-54 80.34 [61st of 166]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 55-59 58.45 [97th of 166]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 60-64 19.06 [155th of 166]

Economic activity > Both sexes aged 65 plus 2.3 [159th of 165]

Economic activity > Men aged 15-19 36.34 [108th of 164]

Economic activity > Men aged 20-24 78.16 [141st of 166]

Economic activity > Men aged 25-29 87.94 [166th of 165]

Economic activity > Men aged 30-34 96.4 [133rd of 165]

Economic activity > Men aged 35-39 97.74 [67th of 164]

Economic activity > Men aged 40-44 97.52 [46th of 163]

Economic activity > Men aged 45-49 96.81 [57th of 167]

Economic activity > Men aged 50-54 93.17 [82nd of 165]

Economic activity > Men aged 55-59 74.48 [141st of 167]

Economic activity > Men aged 60-64 29.84 [150th of 165]

Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 3.91 [156th of 162]

Economic activity > Women aged 15-19 31.98 [77th of 164]

Economic activity > Women aged 20-24 75.37 [38th of 166]

Economic activity > Women aged 25-29 77.78 [55th of 165]

Economic activity > Women aged 30-34 76.28 [68th of 167]

Economic activity > Women aged 35-39 78.05 [65th of 165]

Economic activity > Women aged 40-44 77.94 [65th of 165]

Economic activity > Women aged 45-49 75.44 [58th of 161]

Economic activity > Women aged 50-54 67.58 [65th of 166]

Economic activity > Women aged 55-59 42.78 [81st of 167]

Economic activity > Women aged 60-64 8.93 [150th of 165]

Economic activity > Women aged 65 plus 1.31 [156th of 167]

Employees, agriculture, female > % of female

1.7 % [42nd of 86]
employment
Employees, agriculture, male > % of male
2.9 % [50th of 86]
employment
Employees, industry, female > % of female
16.1 % [24th of 86]
employment
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 40.9 % [7th of 86]

Employees, services, female > % of female

82.1 % [24th of 86]
employment
Employees, services, male > % of male employment 56.1 % [22nd of 86]

Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 2.4 % [50th of 94]

Employment in industry > % of total employment 29.7 % [13th of 94]

Employment in services > % of total employment 67.8 % [22nd of 94]

employment rate > Source / date of > information 2003 OECD .

Employment rate of highly educated women 83.4% [10th of 18]

Employment rate of lesser educated women 55.4% [10th of 18]

Female decision makers 27% [40th of 67]

Female doctors 37.1% [4th of 18]

Female economic activity 47.9% [99th of 156]

Female economic activity growth 0% [106th of 156]

Female professionals 50% [34th of 68]

Firing cost > weeks of wages 69.3 weeks of wages [41st of 164]

force participation rate, female > % of female

67.36 % [43rd of 184]
population ages 15-64
force participation rate, male > % of male population
79.3 % [118th of 184]
ages 15-64
force participation rate, total > % of total population
73.41 % [57th of 184]
ages 15-64
force with primary education > % of total 17.3 % [29th of 48]

force with secondary education > % of total 58.9 % [10th of 51]

force with tertiary education > % of total 23.8 % [19th of 52]

force, female > % of total labor force 45.17 % [56th of 184]

force, total 40,991,820 [13th of 184]

    force, total (per capita) 0.497 per capita [40th of 184]

Foreign labor force 8.8 [8th of 23]

Gender division of housework 2.1 [7th of 13]

Industrial workers > Female 19% [25th of 79]

Industrial workers > Male 46% [4th of 79]

Labor force 43,540,000 [13th of 132]

 528,391.671 per
    Labor force (per capita) [25th of 131]
million people
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 2.8%, industry 33.4%, services 63.8%
Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture 2.8% [17th of 32]

Labor force > By occupation > Industry 33.4% [1st of 29]

Labor force > By occupation > Services 63.8% [3rd of 29]

Long term unemployment 3.9% [9th of 27]

Long term unemployment > Share 51.5% [6th of 28]

Long-term unemployment > % of total

50 % [5th of 48]
unemployment
Long-term unemployment, female > % of female
52.3 % [5th of 46]
unemployment
Long-term unemployment, male > % of male
48.3 % [6th of 46]
unemployment
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications >
April 8, 1976
Date
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications >
15 [40th of 146]
Minimum age
Parental leave > Paid maternity leave
14 weeks (100%) 6 before birth
Parental leave > Paid paternity leave 0 weeks
Parental leave > Restrictions
Must have private health insurance for part of paid leave, rest of paid leave paid by employer
Parental leave > Unpaid maternity leave
Share of 156 weeks (3 years) with father
Parental leave > Unpaid paternity leave
Share of 156 weeks (3 years) with mother
Regulation 51 [73rd of 123]

Regulation > Employment Conditions 46 [107th of 123]

Regulation > Firing 45 [45th of 123]

Regulation > Hiring 63 [29th of 123]

regulations > % of managers surveyed ranking this as

9.53 % [16th of 39]
a major business constraint
Researchers in labor force 60 per 10000 people [9th of 18]

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining

June 8, 1956
Convention > Ratifications > Date
Rigidity of employment index 44 [64th of 166]

Service workers > Female 79% [37th of 79]

Service workers > Male 50% [43rd of 79]

Share of women employed in the nonagricultural

46.6 % [51st of 174]
sector > % of total nonagricultural employment
skills > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a
6.94 % [28th of 38]
major business constraint
Strikes 2 [26th of 27]

1,089.28 per million

Technicians in R&D > per million people [8th of 49]
people
Temporary employment share 12.6% [12th of 26]

Total work time > Females 440 minutes [15th of 29]

Total work time > Females over males 100% [24th of 29]

Total work time > Males 441 minutes [10th of 29]

Trade union membership 26% [11th of 18]

Unemployment 7.7% [4th of 18]

Unemployment and education > Tertiary 4% [4th of 18]

Unemployment and education > Upper secondary 7.8% [3rd of 18]

Unemployment benefit as % of GDP 1.3 % of GDP [9th of 18]

Unemployment benefit replacement 26 [15th of 20]

Unemployment gender ratio 113% [16th of 30]

Unemployment rate 9% [21st of 107]

Unemployment with secondary education, female >

61.9 % [10th of 71]
% of female unemployment
Unemployment with secondary education, male > %
60.1 % [11th of 71]
of male unemployment
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total
12.4 % [23rd of 77]
unemployment
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > %
12.5 % [21st of 71]
of female unemployment
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of
12.3 % [18th of 71]
male unemployment
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 9.3 % [37th of 95]

Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 10.2 % [21st of 95]

Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 9.8 % [28th of 101]

Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor

14 % [36th of 77]
force ages 15-24
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force
16.1 % [28th of 77]
ages 15-24
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force
15.2 % [33rd of 77]
ages 15-24
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
4 weeks (24 "workable" days, i.e. Mo to Sa, even if the working week is Mo to Fri), plus 9 to
13 bank holidays
Work time > Market-oriented 44% [30th of 29]

Work Time > More than 40 hours 43.7% [11th of 18]

Work time > Non-market-oriented 56% [1st of 29]

Workers' remittances and compensation of

12,519,000,000 $ [4th of 149]
employees, paid > US$
    Workers' remittances and compensation of 4.479 $ per $1,000 of [68th of 166]
employees, paid > US$ (per $ GDP) GDP
    Workers' remittances and compensation of 151.802 $ per 1,000 [26th of 167]
employees, paid > US$ (per capita) people
Workers' remittances and compensation of
6,542,000,000 $ [9th of 156]
employees, received > US$
    Workers' remittances and compensation of 2.341 $ per $1,000 of [132nd of 165
employees, received > US$ (per $ GDP) GDP ]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of
79.326 $ per capita [64th of 167]
employees, received > US$ (per capita)
Working mothers 53 [13th of 23]

Working time to buy a car 861 hours [15th of 16]

Working time to buy a refrigerator 17 hours [14th of 15]

Working time to buy a television set 32 hours [5th of 15]

Working time to buy beef 30 minutes [16th of 16]

Working time to buy bread 7 minutes [14th of 16]

Working time to buy chicken 8 minutes [16th of 16]

Working time to buy fish 36 minutes [13th of 15]

Working time to buy milk 2 minutes [15th of 16]

Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In

465 [1st of 15]
the EU > Fatalities
2.3 per 100,000
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities [10th of 15]
employees
Youth unemployment 7.7% [22nd of 30]

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; 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; OECD; 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: Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Deutschland, west germany

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