OECD Employment Outlook 2008

Sources and definitions Most of the statistics shown in these tables can also be found in two other (paper or electronic) publication and data repository, as follows: ● the annual edition of OECD Labour Force Statistics, 1987-2007; ● OECD.Stat, the OECD’s central data warehouse (www.oecd.org/els/employment/data), which contains both raw data and derived statistics. These references, which include information on definitions, notes and sources used by OECD countries, contain longer time series and more detailed data by age group, gender, duration of unemployment, etc., than are shown in this annex. Please note that the data on employment, unemployment and the labour force are not necessarily the same as the series used for analyses and forecasting by the OECD Economics Department and reproduced in Tables 0.2 and 0.3 of the “Recent Developments” section at the beginning of this publication. Interested users can refer to the on-line database (www.oecd.org/els/employment/data), which contains data series on the labour market situation in OECD countries: population, labour force, employment and unemployment disaggregated by gender and age, educational attainment, employment status and sector of activity, participation and unemployment rates, statistics on part-time employment and duration of unemployment, job tenure, etc. The on-line database contains a number of additional series on labour market performances and on features of the institutional and regulatory environment affecting the functioning of labour markets. Among these are the following: ● annual hours of work data for comparisons of trends over time; ● distribution of gross earnings of full-time workers by earnings decile and by sex to derive various measures of earnings dispersion; ● gross mean and median earnings of full-time workers by age group and gender; ● statutory minimum wages; ● public expenditure on labour market programmes and number of participants; ● trade union density rates in OECD countries.