| | Labour market policies and institutions | ||||
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| | | | Earlier year | Latest year | Latest year |
Unit (earlier, latest years) | OECD-Total | ||||
| | Public expenditure on labour market policies | ||||
| | Active measures | % of GDP (1999, 2009) | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 |
| | Passive measures | % of GDP (1999, 2009) | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| | Ratio of minimum to median wage | Ratio (2000, 2009) | .. | .. | 0.48 |
| | Employment protection (EP) | ||||
| | Overall EP strictness | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| | EP strictness for regular employment | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| | EP strictness for temporary employment | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| | Additional requirements for collective dissmissals | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.0 |
| | Labour taxes (for a single person without children) | ||||
| | At 100% of the average wage | % of labour costs (2000, 2010) | 52.9 | 49.1 | 34.9 |
| | At 67% of the average wage | % of labour costs (2000, 2010) | 47.5 | 44.9 | 31.3 |
| | Unemployment benefits | % of previous earnings (1997, 2007) | 25.7 | 23.7 | 24.7 |
| | Union membership | % of employees (1999, 2009) | 25.3 | 18.8 | 18.4 |
| Last updated: 27 September 2011 | |||||
| Note: Next update: June 2012. OECD unweighted average. | |||||
| Source: OECD Employment Outlook, for most of the above indicators. For further details, see:sources, definitions and related studies. | |||||