On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Michael Pugliese quoted:
>> ..."Jan Edling's latest Trade Union Confederation Report contains
> such politically sensitive figures that the Trade Union Confederation
> do not want to approve it, claims Edling. The reason: "According to
> Edling only 60% of the Swedes are working". Four out of ten Swedes
> have no job — and the figures distributed per municipalities give
> clear signals that it is about lack of jobs, not extreme high illness
> figures.
I.e., the employment/population ratio is 60%, with which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics agrees <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/ special.requests/ForeignLabor/lfcompendiumt05.txt>. The comparable U.S. figure is 63%. The difference is entirely the result of male employment; the EPRs for women are virtually identical. IOW, BFD.
Doug