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Employment11 child terms A person’s work, occupation, job or business. (Definition also used by the Queensland government)
Source: Wahba 2013, Global [ X close ]
Employability
1. The degree of adaptability an individual demonstrates in finding and keeping a job, and updating occupational skills. 2. Relates to portable competencies and qualifications that enhance an individual’s capacity to make use of the education and training opportunities available in order to secure and retain decent work.
Source: UNEVOC/NCVER 2009, Global [ X close ]
Portable competencies and qualifications that enhance an individual’s capacity to make use of the education and training opportunities available in order to secure and retain decent work, to progress within the enterprise and between jobs, and to cope with changing technology and labour market conditions.
Source: UNESCO 1984, Global [ X close ]
The combination of factors which enable individuals to progress towards or get into employment, to stay in employment and to progress during career.
Source: CEDEFOP 2008, Europe [ X close ]
Employed
All those who, during the reference period are 15 years old and over as of their last birthday and are reported either: a. at work - those who do any work even for one hour during the reference period for pay or work without pay on the farm or business enterprise operated by a member of the same or related by blood, marriage or adoption; or b. with a job but not at work – those who have a job or business but are not at work be it temporary or temporary illness/injury, vacation or other reasons. Likewise, persons who expect to return or to start operation of a farm or business enterprise within two weeks from the date of the enumerator’s visit, are considered employed.
Source: TESDA 2010, Philippines [ X close ]
A person who works in a job or business or on a farm, either as an employee, employer, own account worker, or contributing family worker. (Definition also used by Queensland government)
Source: Wahba 2013, Global [ X close ]
The employed comprise all persons of working age who during a specified brief period, such as one week or one day, were in the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work).
Source: ILO (Stat) 2016, Global [ X close ]
Employee
An employee is a person who works for a public or private employer and receives remuneration in wages, salary, a retainer fee by their employer while working on a commission basis, tips, piece-rates or payment in kind, or a person who operates his or her own incorporated enterprise with or without hiring employees. (Definition also used by the Australian bureau of Statistics)
Source: Wahba 2013, Global [ X close ]
Employer
An employer is a person who operates his or her own unincorporated economic enterprise or engages independently in a profession or trade, and hires one or more employees. (Definition also used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Source: Wahba 2013, Global [ X close ]
Employment and skills council
A council responsible for TVET and employment issues. (Similar definition used for the Australian EFSC. See NCEVER)
Source: Wahba 2013, Global [ X close ]
Employment rate
a. percentage of the total number of employed persons to the total number of persons in the labor force. b. as used in TESDA, the term refers to the ratio (in percent) of employed TVET graduates to the total number of graduates.
Source: TESDA 2010, Philippines [ X close ]
Equal employment opportunity (EEO)
Employment based on the prohibition of the discrimination in its programmes and which could be based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, and marital or familial status.
Source: Wahba 2013, Global [ X close ]
Informal employment
The following definition of informal employment follows the one recommended by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS).
Thus, informal workers belong to any of the following categories: 1. unpaid family workers in registered or unregistered businesses with more than five employees; 2. employees in registered firms (or firms with more than five employees)without access to at least one of the three key benefits; 3. own-account workers with unregistered activities; 4. employers in unregistered businesses with less than five workers; 5. unpaid family workers in unregistered businesses with less than five employees; 6 employees in unregistered firms with less than five workers and without access to at least one of the three key benefits; 7. employees in unregistered firms with less than five workers with access to all three key benefits; 8. members of unregistered producers’ cooperatives with less than five workers; 9. workers not classifiable by status in other unregistered businesses with less than five workers. The definition was established in the 15th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) and expanded to cover informal jobs in the formal sector in the 17th ICLS. Source: ILO 2014, Global [ X close ]
Neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET)
The indicator presents the share of young people who are neither in education and training nor in employment, as a percentage of the total number of young people in the corresponding age group. Young people in education include those attending part-time as well as full-time education, but exclude those in non-formal education and in educational activities of very short duration. Employment is defined according to the ILO Guidelines and covers all those who have been in paid work for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey or were temporarily absent from such work.
Source: OECD 2014 [ X close ]
Young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET) – calculated as the percentage of the population of a given age group (usually 15-24) who are not employed and not involved in further education or training
Source: EU commission (Skills panorama) 2015, Europe [ X close ]
The indicator young people neither in employment nor in education and training, abbreviated as NEET, corresponds to the percentage of the population of a given age group and sex who is not employed and not involved in further education or training.
The numerator of the indicator refers to persons meeting these two conditions: * they are not employed (i.e. unemployed or inactive according to the International Labour Organisation definition); * they have not received any education or training in the four weeks preceding the survey. The denominator is the total population of the same age group and sex, excluding the respondents who have not answered the question 'participation to regular education and training' Source: EU commission (Eurostat) 2016, Europe [ X close ]
Self-employment
Self-employment is defined as the employment of employers, workers who work for themselves, members of producers' co-operatives, and unpaid family workers. The latter are unpaid in the sense that they lack a formal contract to receive a fixed amount of income at regular intervals, but they share in the income generated by the enterprise.
Unpaid family workers are particularly important in farming and retail trade. All persons who work in corporate enterprises, including company directors, are considered to be employees. Self-employment may be seen either as a survival strategy for those who cannot find any other means of earning an income or as evidence of entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to be one's own boss. Source: OECD 2016 [ X close ]
Someone who is self-employed has no employer and usually has no or few employees.
Source: Ministry of Labour 2005, Jordan [ X close ]
Unemployment
Unemployment as defined according to the international standards requires that a person meet three criteria for inclusion: they (a) did not work in the reference period; (b) were available to take up a job had one been offered in the week prior to the reference period; and (c) actively sought work within the past 30 days (for example, by registering at an employment centre or answering a job advertisement). The difference between the "relaxed" definition of unemployment (also known as "broad unemployment") and the "strict" definition is in the relaxation of the "seeking work" criterion (c), so that "relaxed" unemployment is defined as the number of youth who did not work in the reference week but are available to work. According to the international standards, the seeking work criterion may be relaxed "in situations where the conventional means of seeking work are of limited relevance, where the labour market is largely unorganized or of limited scope, where labour absorption is, at the time, inadequate or where the labour force is largely self-employed".
Source: ILO 2015, Global [ X close ]
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