Many of the working population earn no more than 55 American cents a day.
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It is particularly important at big companies, which employ about half of the working population.
At present, more than 70% of the working population have reached GCSE level or the equivalent.
The educational approaches employed are designed for the working population and involve the arts and vocational training.
Meanwhile, the working population will have been thinned by the low birth rates of the past 15 years.
Among the working population, few potential employees had the education and skills necessary to support a viable business enterprise.
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Since then, the working population has aged, so the employment-to-population ratio will be persistently lower even in good times.
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Could a large portion of the working population be comfortable in that environment?
The threshold for being liable for this levy should be set high enough to exclude most of the working population.
There is, however, a 2%-a-year difference between the rise in the working population of America and the fall in Japan.
And done soon: in western Europe the working population is likely to start shrinking as soon as next year or 2010.
It claims wage disparity between the UK's top earners and the rest of the working population will soon return to Victorian levels.
Today, though, only 3.5% of the working population is engaged in agriculture.
They are comparing all women in the working population with all men.
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The most effective way to deal with xenophobic responses and cultural clashes is to make sure migrants quickly become part of the working population.
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At one point this industry employed 5% or so of the working population of the islands (yes, islands, the place is really Antigua and Barbuda).
Three years ago, the Swiss Statistical Office calculated that, with declining birth rates, stabilising the level of immigration would cut the working population by almost one-third by 2050.
Although manufacturing and services continue to supplant farming as the dominant forms of South-East Asian output, much of the working population still relies on agriculture (see chart).
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The Bank of Italy has said that the percentage of people over 60 compared with the working population could rise to 53% in 2020 and 83% in 2040, from 42% in 2005.
Deputy Geoff Southern wants the proposal, which is set out in a States blueprint for the future, to be changed so growth of the working population is set at a quarter of what has been planned.
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New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the first quarter of 2010 show 27.5% of the working population in Wales is employed by the public sector, compared to the UK average of 21.2%.
And while the working population is saving about 6.5% of its income, retirees are depleting their savings by about 14% per year--several times the 3% to 4% experts say is prudent if a nest egg is going to last a lifetime.
Spending on health, pensions and care costs are set to soar over the next half century and, if the government is committed to ensuring public debt does not exceed 40% of GDP, the squeeze on the working population becomes ever greater.
With the working age population on the rise, it said employment levels before the downturn would not be regained until at least 2020.
Since June 2009, when the recession ended, the working age population has grown by 4.8 million, while the number of Americans working or looking for work has declined by 0.9 million.
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By 2015, their population will be so large, that unless the US economy grows like an emerging market, tax revenues from the working age population will unlikely be able to cover the social security and medicare expenses of retired persons.
What this means is that more people were forced to enter the work force because the existing working population were unable to earn as much as they had in the past.
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You might think, then, that if we looked at the average number of hours worked by all those of working age - dividing the total number of hours worked by the working age population - Germany would come out on top.
We used to need 90% of the population working in the fields to feed 100% of the population.
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