•  Global Labour Monitor: The GLM database provides the latest available statistical information on labour markets across the globe. So far, there are 12 indicators covering nearly 80 countries. The data are collected from many different sources, most often from websites of national statistical offices, government ministries and international agencies. This project is carried out in collaboration with Global Labour Monitor (GLM) in Geneva, Switzerland. The statistics presented here were adjusted and standardized using a methodology developed by Global Labour Monitor.

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• Update: WorkIndicators was  launched April 16, 2008, in Amsterdam at the Global WageIndicator Conference. “Soft”  launch  took  place in Capetown, April 9,  2008.  The latest update of WorkIndicators: May 19, 2009.
  

Definition: The percentage of persons in the labour force who do not have a job, but who are willing to work and are seeking work
Year: Latest year for which official data or estimate is available, usually 2008
Sources: Key Labour Market Indicators (KILM), ILO, Geneva, Switzerland;    United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva, Switzerland;     United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Bangkok, Thailand, and national statistical offices

Youth Unemployment Rate

• Definition:  The percentage of young people (15-24 years old) in the labour force who do not have a job, but who are willing to work and are seeking work
• Year: Latest year for which official data or estimate is available, usually 2008 or 2007
• Source: Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) - 2007, ILO Geneva; LABORSTA, ILO’s statiscal database; UN Millenium Development Goal indicators database. UNDP; UNECE database; ILO Regional Office (LIMA Peru); UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2007): Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2007 (ESCAP, Bangkok); and national offices.
  

Employment / Population ratio

• Definition: The ratio of the number of people (15-64 years old) with a job to the total population aged 15 to 64 years
• Year: Latest year for which official data or estimate is available, usually 2007.
• Source: Key Labour Market Indicators (KILM) - 2007, ILO Geneva.

Percentage workers living in households with less than $2 per day per person

• Definition: Percentage of all employed persons who live in households where the daily income is less than $2 per day per person.
• Year:  Latest year for which official data or estimate is available, often 2003.
• Source: Key Labour Market  Indicators (KILM) -  2007,  ILO Geneva.

• Definition: The ratio of estimated average income of female workers to that of male workers
• Year: The most recent year available, usually 2006
• Source: Database of the UNDP Human Development Report.

Minimum wage in local currency

• Definition:  Many countries have several minimum wage rates. These rates usually depend on age, region, sector and level of skills. Certain groups of workers are sometimes excluded from minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage level reported here matches, as much as possible, that of a worker with the following profile:  adult non-skilled or semi-skilled worker, working in the largest urban area, employed full-time in the largest non-agricultural sector. The reference period of minimum wage is  H : per hour; D: per day; W: per week; M: per month; Y: per year.
• Year: 2009 - 2008 - 2007
  
• Source: Legislative updates of Hewitt & Associates; ILO website on country labour legislation; US State Department 2007;  country reports on human rights practices; data provided by ILO field offices and websites of government ministries of labour and employment.
• WageIndicator: Detailed salary information by country? Please check WageIndicator.
• Detailed Minimum Wages: For India, China and The Netherlands
  

• Definition: Female technical and professional workers as a percentage of the total number of such workers.
• Year: The most recent year available, usually 2006
  
• Source: UNDP - 2007 : Human Development Report 2007/08 - New York.

• Definition: Average contribution (per  worker) by employer to social security (covering risks such as sickness and unemployment), as a percentage of average salary.
• Year: 2007
• Source: World Bank - 2008: Doing Business 2008. World Bank, Washington DC.

Trade union members as a percentage of the total labour force

• Definition: Persons in the labour force who are members of a trade union, as a percentage of the total labour force (including the informal sector).
  
• Year: 2008 - 2007 - 2006
  
• Source:  National websites of trade unions ;  US State Department 2007 country reports on human rights practices; Data provided by field offices of the ILO. Data of the total labour force are obtained from ILO - 2007: Key Labour Market Indicators (KILM) - 2007,  ILO  Geneva.

Percentage children (5-14 years old) doing child labour

• Definition: Children aged between 5 and 14 years doing child labour, as a percentage of the total number of children in that age group
• Year: latest year available during the period 1997-2007
• Source: UNICEF-2009. The State of the World’s Children (New York, 2009)

• Net migration rate
  Definition: Number of people who immigrated from all other countries to this country, minus the number of people who emigrated from this country to another country, per 1,000 of the resident population of this country
• Year: 2007
• Source: US Population Reference Bureau: World Population Data Sheet 2007 (Washington DC)

Human Development Index ranking

• Definition: Position of country’s Human Development Index in global ranking (177 countries in total), 1 is the highest ranking
• Year: 2006
  
• Source: Database of the Human Development Reports
  

• Huub Bouma,
• Jacques Egger,
• Nienke Dirkse,
• Mannes Giesbers,
• Marcel Klomp,
• Lorena Ponce de Leon
• Paulien Osse,
• Peter Peek,
• Kea Tijdens,
• Sanne van Zijl.

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