Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

Definition: Total unemployment is broken down by unemployment durations. For each unemployment duration, data are expressed in % of total unemployment (and are further broken down by sex and age groups) or in thousands of persons.
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data expressed as a percentage of total unemployment (click here)
data expressed in thousands of persons (click here)
average unemployment duration, expressed in months (click here)

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Discouraged workers

Definition: Discouraged workers are persons who desire to work, but who are not in the labour force, believing that there is no work available due to various reasons. Data are expressed in % of labour force and % of total population (aged 15-64), or in thousands of persons. They are broken down by sex and age groups.
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data expressed as a percentage of labour force/population (click here)
data expressed in thousands of persons (click here)
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Job duration

Definition: Total employment is broken down by job tenure intervals. For each interval, data are expressed in thousands of persons. Average job durations, expressed in years, are also available.
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employment by job tenure (click here)
average job durations (click here)
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Incidence of temporary employment

Definition: Total employment is broken down by type of work contract (in the main job), temporary vs. permanent contract.
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data expressed as a percentage of total employment (click here)
data expressed in thousands of persons (click here)
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Working time

Definition: Employment is broken down by hour bands of usual weekly hours worked in the main job (1-19 hours, 20-29 hours, 30-34 hours, 35-39 hours, 40 hours or more).
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data expressed as a percentage of total employment (click here)
data expressed in thousands of persons (click here)
average number of hours usually worked per week per person in employment (click here)
average number of hours actually worked per year per person in employment (click here)
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Incidence of part-time employment

Definition: Data on full-time and part-time employment based on a common definition of full-time work, 30-usual weekly hours of work in the main job.
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data expressed as a percentage of total employment (click here)
data expressed in thousand of persons (click here)
data based on national definitions of full-time work, as a percentage of total employment (click here)
data based on national definitions of full-time work, in thousands of persons (click here)
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Involuntary part-time workers

Definition: Involuntary part-time workers are part-timers (working less than 30-usual hours per week) because they could not find a full-time job (note: definitions are not harmonised, which hampers cross-county comparisons).
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data expressed as a percentage of total part-time employment, total employment, labour force or population (click here)
data expressed in thousands of persons (click here)
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Economic short-time workers

Definition: Economic short-time workers comprise workers who are working less than usual due to business slack, plant stoppage, or technical reasons (note: definitions are not harmonised, which hampers cross-county comparisons).
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data expressed in thousands of persons (click here)
data expressed as a percentage of total part-time employment, total employment, labour force or population (click here)

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Gross earnings of full-time employees by age group (soon available)

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Distribution of gross earnings of full-time employees

Definition: This dataset contains gross earnings of full-time workers by earnings deciles and mean earnings, in national currency units. Based on earnings levels of full-time workers by deciles, it also contains three decile ratios (P9/P1, P5/P1 and P9/P5) that are commonly used to describe earnings dispersion. Also included is a series on the incidence of low pay (2/3 of median earnings).
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earnings deciles and mean earnings and decile ratios (click here)
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Labour Market Programmes (LMP)

Definition: Labour market programmes include public employment services, training, hiring subsidies and direct job creations in the public sector, as well as unemployment benefits.
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Public expenditure and participant stocks on LMP

respectively expressed in millions of national currency units and thousands of persons (click here)
respectively, as a percentage of GDP and a percentage of labour force (click here)

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Synthetic Indicators of Employment Protection Legislation

Definition: The measure of employment protection developed here refers to the protection of regular employment and the regulation of temporary work and is intended to measure the strictness of EPL.
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indicators of overall strictness of EPL in 1990, 1998 and 2003 (click here)
indicators of stictness of EPL for regular employment (click here); for temporary employment (click here); and for collective dissmissals (click here)
its time series of EPL changes, 1985-2003 (click here)

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Detailed Calculation of Summary Indicators of EPL Strictness
A Detailed description of Employment Protection in Force in OECD countries
"Employment Protection regulation and Labour Market Performance“, OECD Employment Outlook, 2004.
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Statutory minimum wages in 21 OECD countries

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statutory minimum wages in national currency units, at current prices (click here)
real hourly minimum wages in USD exchange rates (click here)
real hourly minimum wages in USD PPP (click here)
minimum relative to median wages of full-time workers (click here)

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Making the Most of the Minimum: Statutory Minimum Wages, Employment and Poverty, OECD Employment Outlook, 1998.
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Union members and employees

Definition: Union members and employees are expressed in units. Trade union density is defined as the percentage of employees who are members of a trade-union.
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