part-time workers are counted according to the time
worked (e.g., two workers on half-time schedules count
the same as one full-time worker). Although FTE
employment may provide a better measure of labour
input, this measure is not as widely available as numbers
of employees and may be difficult to implement
consistently in the context of internationally varied
employment practices. For those reasons, the
recommendation of the present Manual is that the FATS
employment variable be the number of persons
employed. The number should be representative of the
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Such detail would, of course, exclude the transactor-based
EBOPS categories for travel and for government services,
n.i.e.
period covered, but in the absence of strong seasonal or
other fluctuations in employment, it may be measured as
of a point in time, such as the end of the year, following
national practices.
4.56. Data on employment by affiliates can be used in
several ways in a FATS system. They can be used to
determine the share of foreign affiliates in host country
employment, or to help determine the extent to which
employment by foreign affiliates complements or
substitutes for domestic (home country) employment by
parent companies or other domestic firms. An industry
breakdown of affiliates’ employment can yield further
insights into the impact of foreign-owned enterprises on
specific parts of the economy. Used in conjunction with
data on compensation of employees––one of the
“additional” variables suggested below––the
employment variable may be used in examining
compensation practices of affiliates relative to those of
domestically owned firms.
Relation to presence of natural persons mode of supply 4.57. Although data would not, in general, appear to be
available to identify separately the portion of
employment by affiliates that is accounted for by
employees from abroad, such information, if available,
could be used for elaborating on the GATS presence of
natural persons mode of supply. Annex I explores the
issues that will arise in constructing a framework of
statistics to use during negotiations on this mode of
supply.