Discouraged workers

OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics

The OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics database includes a range of annual labour market statistics and indicators from 1960 broken down by sex and age as well as information about part-time and short-time workers, job tenure, hours worked, unemployment duration, trade union, employment protection legislation, minimum wages, labour market programmes for OECD countries and non-member economies.

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Keywords: employment, labour force, trade union, labour, labour market, unemployment, jobs, statistics

ISSN: 20744129 (online)
https://doi.org/10.1787/lfs-data-en

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Discouraged workers

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This table contains data on discouraged workers who are persons not in the labour force who believe that there is no work available due to various reasons and who desire to work. Data are broken down by sex and standardised age groups (15-24, 15-64, 25-54, 55-64, 65+, total) and are available starting from 1976.

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Keywords: statistics, unemployment, gender, discouraged workers, labour force

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