Employment
The 2001 Census showed that 30.5 percent of economically active Jews were self-employed, compared to a figure of 14.2 percent for the general population. Jews aged 16–24 were more likely to be economically inactive than their counterparts in the general population; 89.2 percent of these were students.
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Famous quotes containing the word employment:
“It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.”
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