Formal sector employment

The general assumption that formal sector employment is preferred over informal sector activity also applies to Indonesian workers.

Formal employment

Formal Sector

Turkey reported that the difficulties experienced in finding employment in the formal sector pushed women into the informal economy.

Zambia was male dominated in all walks of society, from the formal employment sector to the basic family unit.

In Tuvalu, women form one third of the formal employment sector, while in Solomon Islands, the equivalent figure is half.

Overall employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is about 999,500 persons, of which 638,000 (63.8 per cent) are employed in the formal sector.

10.22 This is the country's main provider of post secondary, formal, pre employment training for jobs in the modern sector of the economy.

Under the prevailing circumstances, only 3 out of every 100 school leavers were expected to find employment in the formal sector of the economy.

All the groups in formal employment receive social security benefits.

Women and employment in the service sector

International human rights standards should be applied in practice in the formal and non formal justice sector.

Public sector employment in Kenya is notoriously opaque.

(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

This means better competitiveness for the grey economy in relation to the formal sector, owing to the larger employment of the young, who are a more productive labour group.

Data on employment was also lacking, but there was in fact no discrimination in the formal and public sector, where appointments were made on an open and equal footing.

According to the University of Stellenbosch Bureau for Economic Research, only 23,000 of the 440,000 people entering the labour market this year will find employment in the formal sector.

(iv) The informal sector and its integration into the formal economy

Improving employment and working conditions in the informal sector

She would also like to know whether the special project for the economic empowerment of women was increasing access to jobs for Roma women, especially in the formal employment sector.

Service industries dominate the formal sector, consisting mainly of tourism, an international financial centre and the government sector.

The informal sector should be provided greater access to resources, and formal sector institutions must establish links with the sector to assist it.

The financial sector dominates non academic employment of professional economists.

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

90. A second trend is the emergence of an intermediate sector between the formal sector of large enterprises and the increasingly crowded informal sector.

The rate of female employment in the service sector varies also within regions, depending on the sector.

Liberia is one of the world's poorest countries, with a formal employment rate of 15 .

Indicator 11 Women's share in paid employment in non agrarian sector

Reforms to increase and improve women's employment in public sector organizations.

By 2006, public sector employment was 78 and private sector 22 , compared to 91.8 to 8.2 in 1981.

In the year 2000, public sector employment was 76 and private sector, mainly composed by personal property, employment was 23 compared to the 1981 ratio of 91 to 8 .

The informal sector plays a significant role in African economies since it offers the means for many people to cope with the severe lack of employment opportunities in the public and formal private sectors.

362. The Committee also noted with concern the lack of women apos s access to formal employment and the difficulties encountered by women working in the informal sector in general and from governmental officials.

The first category are those who work in the formal employment sector of which the Government is the primary employer, the second category represents a larger and more fluid informal sector based on agriculture and garden cottage industry and the third category is subsistence workers.

If the financial sector declines, what will replace it in employment terms?

Asia s service sector is already large, contributing significantly to growth and employment.

Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

The informal sector (i.e., small entrepreneurs, often self employed and operate outside of the formal sector) is large, particularly in developing countries.

Integration of the informal sector into the formal economy could increase contribution of the informal sector to economic growth and poverty eradication.

Given the overall increase of 72 per cent in the total number of employees, this shows that there has been a significant increase in female employment in the formal sector between 1983 and 2000 and that it has grown at a greater rate than total employment growth.

Education is the only formal sector industry where women and men are represented about equally.

Informal and small scale formal entrepreneurs rarely get formal sector credit, partly (but not wholly) because of the relatively high transaction costs for small loans.

Private sector employment is still down 4.1 million from its January 2008 peak.

Horizontal and vertical segregation can be illustrated by employment in the tourism sector.