LFS - Job duration and working time

Does job instability increase? How much time do people spend at work in OECD countries? Find data on:

• Job duration
• Incidence of temporary employment
• Working time
• Incidence of part-time employment
• Involuntary part-time workers
• Economic short-time workers

Note: In most cases, data can be broken down by gender and age groups and by professional status (i.e. dependent employment vs. total employment).

Job duration

Total employment is broken down by job tenure intervals. For each interval, data are expressed in thousands of persons. Average job durations, expressed in years, are also available. Download employment by job tenure or average job durations.

Incidence of temporary employment

Total employment is broken down by type of work contract (in the main job), temporary vs. permanent contract. Download data expressed as a percentage of total employment or in thousands of persons.

Working time

Employment is broken down by hour bands of usual weekly hours worked in the main job (1-19 hours, 20-29 hours, 30-34 hours, 35-39 hours, 40 hours or more). Download data expressed as a percentage of total employment, or in thousands of persons.
Also downloadable: average number of hours usually worked per week per person in employment and average number of hours actually worked per year per person in employment.

Incidence of part-time employment

These tables contain data on full-time and part-time employment based on a common definition of full-time work: 30-usual weekly hours of work in the main job. Download data expressed as a percentage of total employment or in thousand of persons.
Also downloadable: data based on national definitions of full-time work, expressed as a percentage of total employment or in thousands of persons.

Involuntary part-time workers

Involuntary part-time workers are part-timers (working less than 30-usual hours per week) because they could not find a full-time job (note: definitions are not harmonised, which hampers cross-county comparisons). Download data expressed in thousands of persons, or as a percentage of total part-time employment, total employment, labour force or population.

Economic short-time workers

Economic short-time workers comprise workers who are working less than usual due to business slack, plant stoppage, or technical reasons (note: definitions are not harmonised, which hampers cross-county comparisons). Download data expressed in thousands of persons, or as a percentage of total part-time employment, total employment, labour force or population (also included: gender composition of economic short-time workers).