Two surveys, one reported by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and another undertaken by Primary Health Care Research and Information Service PHC RISS) provide annual estimates of the GP workforce at small geographies.
Recent estimates of the health workforce in Pacific Island states and territories demonstrate how critical the shortages are in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and midwifery [ 3, 4].
However, the driving force behind the booming banana sector (both small farms and large) has been largely slum-dwelling Haitian migrants, who make up an estimated 90% of the workforce.
These include not only miners and the like, but also shift workers such as bus drivers and factory workers doing repetitive tasks—altogether, an estimated 6% of the workforce.For other Italians, the minimum retirement age will increase next year, but only to 58 instead of 60.
While some in Silicon Valley indulge in free meals, laundry service and egg freezing, an estimated 50percentt of the workforce won't even have basic benefits by 2020 — and Virginia Senator Mark Warner wants to do something about that.
Underemployment is becoming endemic, with informal jobs accounting for an estimated 94% of the workforce.
Speaking to a few working behind the food stalls at one of London's busiest wholesale and retail food markets – where, according to a rough estimate, 30percentt of the workforce are EU citizens – I found a curious mixture of anger, anxiety and optimism.
One Oxford University study in 2013 estimates that 47% of the workforce will become technologically unemployed.
Then, on September 29, an estimated 20 30% of the workforce stayed at home in an economywide general strike.
