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

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12-Oct-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.6% in August 2009, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.3 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

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

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14-Sep-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.5% in July 2009, the same as the previous month and 2.4 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

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

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14-Aug-2009

Unit labour cost growth for the total economy remained largely steady for most OECD countries in the first quarter of 2009 as sharp falls in real output (gross domestic product at constant prices) due ...

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

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13-Jul-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 8.3% in May 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.4 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

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

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09-Jun-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.8% in April 2009, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

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

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15-May-2009

Unit labour costs in industry rose 1.0% quarter-on-quarter in the OECD area in the third quarter of 2008 (0.8% in second quarter) and resulting in a year-on-year growth rate of 2.6%.

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

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11-May-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.6% in March 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.0 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

The real economy and the crisis: revisiting productivity fundamentals

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30-Apr-2009

Discussions about the current crisis often present events in a sequence, such as that the US sub-prime crisis in August 2007 triggered a major inter-bank credit crisis, which transformed itself into a ...

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

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10-Apr-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.3% in February 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.7 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

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