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The average daily wage for waged
West Bank Gaza Strip Palestine employees in Israel and on Israeli
settlements increased between
50 2018 and 2019 by 11 NIS, reaching
254 NIS.
45.1
40 Only 7 out of 10 of all those
34.8
30 25.3 employed are waged
employees
20 23.0 71% of all employed Palestinians
16.6 14.6 are waged employees; 25% are
10 self-employed and employers, while
4% are unpaid family members.
0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 About half of the waged
employees in the private
sector are hired without any
contract
followed by Khan Yunis (49%) This was an increase in the West
while the lowest registered in Gaza Bank by 8%, and in Gaza Strip an 48% of wage employees in the
governorate was 41%. increase of 3% for the same period. private sector hired without any
contract, and only 29% of waged
The services sector and other
Unemployment rate was the highest employees contribute to a pension
branches (including education and
among youth graduates fund. In contrast, less than half of
health) is the biggest employer in the waged employees women (48%)
The unemployment rate of youth local market, where the percentage are given paid maternity leave.
graduates (19- 29) years who hold of employment was more than one
associate diploma certificates third of all those employed in the
and above stands at 52%. For West Bank, compared with more 30% of waged employees in
youth graduates by gender, this than half in Gaza Strip. the private sector received
represents 68% for females The average weekly hours worked less than the minimum wage
compared with 35% for males by waged employees in the West (1,450 NIS) in Palestine
(nearly 2:1). Bank was 44.1 hours compared
There was a fall in the waged
A large gap in the labour force with 36.6 hours in Gaza Strip. The employees in the private sector
participation rate between males average number of days worked per receiving less than the minimum
and females month was 22.8 days in West Bank wage in the West Bank, from 12% to
About 7 out of every 10 males and 22.7 days in Gaza Strip. 10% between 2018 and 2019. The
participate in the labour force, 133,000 people employed percentage in Gaza Strip increased
compared with about 2 out of every from 72% to 80% during the same
10 of females. in Israel and on Israeli period.
There is an increase in the settlements in 2019
participation rate of females The number of people employed in The gap in the minimum monthly
between Gaza Strip and the West Israel and Israeli settlements was wage rate remains high between the
Bank, where the percentages were about 133,000 in 2019, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip; 660 NIS
19% in Gaza Strip and 17% in the largest share of those (71%) had a in Gaza Strip compared with 1,038
West Bank. permit, and 20% worked without any NIS in the West Bank.
permit. The remainder had an Israeli
The number of entrants into the
labour market in 2019 was about identity card or foreign passport Higher percentage of child
(about 9%).
61,000, with 32,000 of them in the labour in the West Bank than
West Bank and 29,000 individuals in The number employed on Israeli in Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip settlements was 23,000 in 2019
PCBS found that 3% of all children
compared with 22,000 in 2018.
Number of employed in aged (10- 17 years) were employed;
the local market increased The construction sector employed 4% in the West Bank and 1% in
between 2018 and 2019 the most people in Israel and Gaza Strip.
on Israeli settlements, which
The number of the employed in accounted for 64% of the total
the local market increased from Palestinian employment in Israel
827,000 in 2018 to 877,000 in 2019. and Israeli settlements.

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