Weekly Report - 14 April 2011 (WR-11-15)

MEXICO | Labour. Mexicans work longer hours than any other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to the latest yearly social statistics report released by the OECD on 12 April. The figures show that Mexicans spend on average almost 10 hours per day carrying out paid and unpaid work, higher than the OECD average of eight hours per day. However, of these, four-and-a-half hours are spent doing unpaid work, the highest in the OECD. As a result, Mexico has the highest proportion of poor in the grouping with one in five Mexicans considered poor compared with the one in ten OECD average.

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