Jobs in UAE: No. 1 in the world in terms of employment rate

Around 59 per cent of UAE population aged 15 years and above works full-time for an employer, which is highest in the world, according to a new survey by Gallup.

Apart from the UAE, two other Gulf countries, Bahrain and Kuwait, have also been ranked in the top 10 league of full-time jobs.

The UAE is followed by Iceland (54 per cent), Bahrain (53 per cent), Sweden (53 per cent), Russia (51 per cent), Kuwait (49 per cent), Belarus (49 per cent), Latvia (47 per cent) and the US (43 per cent).

The research-based global performance-management consulting company based in the US said about one in four adults worldwide – or roughly 1.3 billion people – worked full-time for an employer in 2013.

Gallup’s Payroll to Population (P2P) rate, which reports the percentage of the total adult population that works at least 30 hours per week for an employer, has not grown since 2012.

Gallup’s latest global P2P measurements are based on more than 136,000 interviews across 136 countries in 2013, in which adults were asked a battery of employment questions modelled on the International Labour Organisation’s standards. Gallup does not count adults who are self-employed, working part time, unemployed, or out of the workforce as payroll-employed in the P2P metric, and it is not seasonally adjusted.

In the Middle East and North Africa, a combination of low workforce participation and high unemployment continues to drive the low P2P rate. While some small Middle East countries such as Bahrain or the UAE have P2P rates higher than 50 per cent, the much larger countries of Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, and Yemen (at only 12 per cent) have lower P2P, bringing the region's total score down to 19 per cent. Low workforce participation among women is a large factor in the region; three-quarters or more of women in Egypt, Morocco, and Yemen are out of the workforce, compared with 37 per cent in the US.

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