Employment-to-population ratio

The employment rate or employment rate refers to the proportion of workers in the population or a population group. It employed are counted in full-time or part-time alike, as well as individuals whose employment relationship is suspended time of the survey, eg due to parental leave.

Differentiation

Depending on the reference population, a distinction is made ​​between:

• Gross Employment rate: proportion of the labor force in the total number of the resident population.
• Standardized Employment rate: proportion of workers in the resident population of a certain age (usually 15 years).
• Net Employment rate: proportion of workers in the residential population in a working age ( usually 15 years until statutory retirement age).

Employment rate refers to the net employment rate in general.

Is not the mere number of persons considered, but the number of working hours with a corresponding weighted term, it is called a full-time equivalent employment rate.

Values

The employment rate in 2007 was 69.4 % in Germany. In the EU -27 it was 65.4 %, in each country between 55.7 % and 77.1 %.

It down further after working hours and gender, so was in Germany between 1993 and 2002 in each year for men are both the employment rate and the full-time -equivalent employment rate between 70 % and 75 %, for women, the employment rate between 55 % and 60 %, the full-time -equivalent employment rate between 50 % and 55%.

Demarcation

A distinction is the employment or employment rate of labor force participation, which involves also unemployed.

Criticism

In the employment rate only the number of those people is a who pursue any contractual employment. Not included in the employment rate, for example, ( unpaid service) of parenting and care, in the home and in clubs. Moonlighting as well as any activity that is taken in the narrower or broader sense, the term " shadow economy " is also not included in the employment rate. Whether students, trainees, etc. are included in the employment rate depends on their working status.