OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: November 2009

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13-Nov-2009

Unit Labour Costs (ULC) for the total economy grew 0.8% in OECD countries in the second quarter of 2009 and rose 3.6% year-on-year.

Quarterly Unit Labour Cost indexes for OECD countries

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13-Nov-2009

Source: OECD System of Unit Labour Cost Indicators (updated quarterly at end Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec) - Unit labour costs measure the average cost of labour per unit of output. Quarterly data are presented ...

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: November 2009

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09-Nov-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.6% in September 2009, the same as the previous month and 2.3 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates and Levels

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09-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - The OECD harmonised unemployment rates (seasonally adjusted) give the numbers of unemployed persons as a percentage of the civilian labour force...

OECD Key Economic Indicators (KEI) Database

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06-Nov-2009

Provides access to long time series of growth rates for a number of Key Economic Indicators (GDP, production, cyclical indicators, standardised unemployment rates, prices, financial indicators, trade...) collected within the Main Economic Indicators database.

Registered unemployment rates and levels for OECD countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (Updated continuously) - Unemployment statistics derived from administrative registers.

Survey based unemployment rates and levels for OECD countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) -  Unemployment rates and levels derived from labour force surveys.

Job Vacancies for OECD countries

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Data generally relate to the stock of unfilled job vacancies.

Hourly Earnings for OECD countries

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Hourly earnings correspond to seasonally adjusted average total earnings in manufacturing and private sector paid per employed person per hour, including overtime pay and regularly recurring

Civilian employment for OECD countries and major non-member economies

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Civilian employment is presented in total and by broad industry and is derived from labour force sample surveys.

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