In other words, half of all students in their final year of compulsory education, before entering the workforce, lack the minimum skills required by employers.

By 2030, the global workforce of 3.5 billion will include an estimated one billion workers who lack a secondary education, significantly hindering their countries economic prospects.

Source Workforce 1999, ESA, 2992, p 73 Workforce 2002, ESA, p 97.

Promotion and development of a sustainable workforce

High unemployment rates even for the more qualified young people demonstrate the great difficulties facing their integration into the workforce and, as a result, the depression and lack of well being among youth.

Women Participation in the Workforce

He'd close down 30 percent of the workforce.

Women represent 46 of the public service workforce.

Source Statistics Netherlands (survey of the workforce) 2001

In other words, half of all students in their final year of compulsory education, before entering the workforce, lack the minimum skills required by employers. For many graduates, these gaps will never be bridged in later life.

When people who in other circumstances could be happy, healthy, and productive members of the workforce lack the skills, confidence, social networks, and experience needed to find work worth paying for, we obviously have a problem.

Lack of mobility and public transportation in Arab villages is another component in preventing full and equal participation of Arab women in the workforce in addition to violating their basic right of providing equal and free access to movement.

Statistical data on participation of indigenous women in the workforce

Such obstacles include the absence of an informed and capable workforce, instinctive mistrust and rejection of new ideas and technologies just because they come from the West, lack of respect for those who acquire new knowledge, and endemic discrimination against women.

This is one of the reasons for the increase in the age and the non productivity of the workforce, as the younger workforce is oriented to the grey economy.

Unemployment is conservatively estimated at a staggering 40 of the workforce.

Only Denmark has a larger public sector (38 of Danish workforce).

The system is hardest on first generation graduates who lack a highly placed relative to help them into the workforce they are often left with no option but to pay a hefty bribe to advance their careers.

Much discrimination occurs in the Saudi workforce as well.

It is still fragmented and does not provide for mobility of its workforce.

The potential gains from a larger female workforce are striking.

The industrial sector employs around 14 of the workforce and accounts for 30 of GDP.

In Germany, Europe s largest economy, the government s share of the workforce is only 12.2 .

Women constituted about half of the country's workforce and were its main food producers.

Between now and 2050, Europe s workforce will decrease by 70 million.

But challenges remain visible minority representation in the public service workforce was 7.8 percent in 2004, well below the workforce availability figure of about 10.4 percent for visible minorities based on the 2001 Census.

Although salary levels in the market economy are aligned to workforce productivity, a practice is still in force that payments are made on the basis of seniority and degree of education which affects the mobility of the workforce.

lack of a partner, or lack of willingness from partner.

It employs more than 90 of the workforce and is home to 75 of the retailers.

For the first time, the workforce reached four million, 46 percent of whom are women.

With an ageing workforce, we must maximize the participation and well being of all Canadians.

It will be very hard for them to return to the workforce.

This focused on several areas including resource allocation, workforce strategy and accountability.

Lack of access to information, lack of protection and lack of legal aid are other factors that aggravate violence against women.

That is why Japanese policymakers should prioritize drawing more women into the workforce.

Moreover, a new labor law and income policies will further increase workforce costs.

In 2002, women in rural areas accounted for 50.8 of the population and around 49 of rural workforce.

141 cases were closed due to lack of evidence, Budgetary Principles Law lack of public interest, lack of any wrongdoing or unknown offender.

But the problem was a lack of resources, not a lack of willingness.

In 2007, the construction industry employed more than 80,000 people, around 12 of the entire country's workforce.

Other limitations included unsuitability of methods and tools, lack of national capacity, lack of data, lack of financial resources and lack of appropriate institutional frameworks which contributed to the difficulties in applying the IPCC Guidelines.

Lack of teachers.

In 2003, the Israeli civil workforce totaled 1.4 million men and 1.2 million women.

Industry Industry and construction accounted for 29 of gross domestic product in 2008, and employed 29.7 of the workforce.

The problem is the lack of trust, the lack of confidence, the lack of partnership between NGOs, campaign groups, civil society organizations and multinational companies.