Economics: Key Tables from OECD
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| Quarterly unit labour cost | ||||||||
| Percentage change over previous period | ||||||||
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| | 2010 | 2011 | ||||||
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | ||
| Australia | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Austria | 0.6 | 0.1 | -0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
| Belgium | 0.3 | -0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 0.9 |
| Canada | -0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | -0.3 | 0.6 |
| Czech Republic | 0.2 | -0.5 | 1.4 | -1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | -0.8 |
| Denmark | 0.1 | 0.2 | -1.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | -0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
| Estonia | -1.7 | -2.2 | 1.6 | -0.5 | -0.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 | .. |
| Finland | -0.7 | -1.7 | 1.8 | -1.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | -0.6 | 0.7 |
| France | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Germany | 0.4 | -1.1 | -0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | -0.3 | 1.1 |
| Greece | 1.0 | -4.0 | 2.9 | -1.3 | -2.8 | .. | .. | .. |
| Hungary | -0.4 | -2.7 | 0.6 | -1.0 | 6.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | -3.4 |
| Ireland | -3.1 | 0.6 | -1.8 | 0.6 | -1.5 | -0.2 | 1.5 | .. |
| Israel 1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | -0.6 | -1.2 | .. |
| Italy | -0.8 | -0.1 | -1.6 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | -1.4 | 0.8 |
| Japan | -0.1 | -1.6 | -0.9 | -0.3 | 2.9 | -0.2 | -2.0 | 0.5 |
| Korea | 1.5 | -1.2 | 1.2 | -1.6 | -1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| Luxembourg | -0.5 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 | .. |
| Netherlands | -0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | -0.7 | 0.0 | 1.0 | .. |
| New Zealand | -0.7 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.9 | -0.5 | .. |
| Norway | 0.4 | -0.4 | 3.3 | -1.0 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| Poland | 1.7 | 0.4 | 1.4 | -0.5 | -0.3 | -0.3 | 3.3 | .. |
| Slovak Republic | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | -1.2 | 1.8 | -1.1 | -0.1 | -2.7 |
| Slovenia | 0.4 | -0.3 | 0.0 | -0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| Spain | -1.6 | -0.2 | -0.7 | -0.4 | -0.7 | 0.1 | -0.7 | -1.2 |
| Sweden | -0.1 | -0.8 | -0.4 | -0.3 | -0.2 | -0.4 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| Turkey | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| United Kingdom | 1.1 | -0.9 | -0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | -0.2 |
| United States | -0.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
| OECD-Total | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
Last updated: 21 March 2012 | |||||||||
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Information on data for Israel: https://doi.org/10.1787/888932315602 | |||||||||
Source: Labour: Unit labour cost - quarterly indicators, Main Economic Indicators (database) |