| | 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) | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| | Passive measures | % of GDP (1999, 2009) | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
| | Ratio of minimum to median wage | Ratio (2000, 2009) | 0.32 | 0.36 | 0.48 |
| | Employment protection (EP) | ||||
| | Overall EP strictness | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 1.6 | 1.5 | 2.1 |
| | EP strictness for regular employment | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| | EP strictness for temporary employment | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.8 |
| | Additional requirements for collective dissmissals | Scale 0-6 (1998, 2008) | 1.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 |
| | Labour taxes (for a single person without children) | ||||
| | At 100% of the average wage | % of labour costs (2000, 2010) | 24.8 | 30.5 | 34.9 |
| | At 67% of the average wage | % of labour costs (2000, 2010) | 23.4 | 29.1 | 31.3 |
| | Unemployment benefits | % of previous earnings (1997, 2007) | 10.8 | 7.6 | 24.7 |
| | Union membership | % of employees (1999, 2009) | 22.2 | 18.5 | 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. | |||||