EFTA Statistical Office Publication: - Labour market vulnerability in the

It is based on data from the 2019 EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS).2 The aim of the article is to highlight the various employment arrangements in the labour market, specifically part-time employment, temporary contracts and self-employment. [...] The data are from 2019 and with the situation in the labour market due to the COVID-19 pandemic one can expect the data from 2020 to look substantially different. [...] Overall employment rate The overall employment rate is the percentage of employed persons in relation to the comparable total population. [...] The female employment rate in Iceland is the highest among the EU and EFTA Member States, while Switzerland and Norway are also among the top five. [...] The EFTA Secretariat has three duty stations: - Geneva in charge of Free Trade Agreements - Brussels in charge of the European Economic Area - Luxembourg EFTA Statistical Office The objective of the EFTA Statistical Office in Luxembourg is to sustain and promote the participation of EFTA States as full members of the European Statistical System (ESS) which contributes to a European culture of evid.