| Employment | 1989 | male | female
|
| Gainfully employed persons | 3 518,400 | |
|
| Quota of employment (national mean) | 49.8 | 62.8 | 37.5
|
| Working hours per week (hours, mean) | 42.8 | |
|
| Wages per hour, all economic sectors | | $15.27 | $10.35
|
| Strikes 1989 | | |
|
| Number | 2 | |
|
| Workers involved | 22 | |
|
| Working days lost | 265 | |
|
| Share of total employees (%) | Number of companies |
|
| Size of firms | | | (%)
|
| Companies with 1-9 employees | 31 | 359,796 | 88
|
| Companies with 10-99 employees | 39 | 44,974 | 11
|
| Companies with 100+ employees | 30 | 4,089 | 1
|
Sources: Bundesamt fiir Statistik, Statistisches Jahrbuch der Schweiz 1991 (Zurich; Verlag Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 1990); Rene Levy, Structure sociale de la Suisse (Zurich: Fondation Suisse de la Culture Pro Helvetia, 1983); Rudolf Strahm, Wirtschaftsbuch Schweiz (Zurich: Ex Libris, 1987); Eidg. Volkswirtschaftsdepartement, Die Volkswirtschaft, no. 3 (Bern: 1992).
