Economics: Key tables from OECD - - ISSN 2074-384x - © OECD 2011
| | Quarterly unit labour cost | ||||||||
| | Percentage change over previous period | ||||||||
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| | | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |||||
Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ||
| | Australia | 0.3 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| | Austria | -0.4 | 0.7 | -0.1 | -0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| | Belgium | -0.3 | 0.3 | -0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | -0.3 | 1.9 |
| | Canada | 0.0 | -0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 | -0.4 |
| | Czech Republic | 0.1 | 1.6 | -0.2 | 0.7 | -0.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | .. |
| | Denmark | -1.1 | 0.6 | -0.6 | -1.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | -1.2 | 1.2 |
| | Estonia | -3.4 | -1.6 | -2.3 | 1.2 | 0.2 | -0.7 | -0.2 | 1.1 |
| | Finland | 0.7 | -0.7 | -1.4 | 1.4 | -0.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| | France | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| | Germany | -0.3 | 0.4 | -1.1 | -0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -0.4 |
| | Greece | -0.3 | 1.0 | -4.0 | 2.9 | -1.3 | -2.8 | .. | .. |
| | Hungary | -0.2 | -0.3 | -2.6 | 0.8 | -1.4 | 6.4 | .. | .. |
| | Ireland | -1.4 | -3.1 | 0.5 | -1.6 | 0.5 | -1.3 | -0.5 | .. |
| | Israel 1 | -0.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | -0.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | -0.7 | .. |
| | Italy | 0.5 | -0.4 | 0.7 | -1.3 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | .. |
| | Japan | -2.0 | -0.4 | -1.5 | -0.8 | -0.3 | 2.6 | 0.1 | -1.7 |
| | Korea | 2.3 | 1.7 | -1.3 | 1.1 | -1.6 | -1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| | Luxembourg | 0.8 | -0.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | .. |
| | Netherlands | -0.2 | -0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -0.6 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| | New Zealand | -0.6 | -0.7 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.9 | .. |
| | Norway | 0.9 | -0.1 | 0.4 | 3.8 | -0.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | .. |
| | Poland | -0.4 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | -1.6 | .. |
| | Slovak Republic | -0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | -2.0 | 2.5 | -0.6 | 0.3 |
| | Slovenia | 0.5 | 0.4 | -0.4 | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0.1 | -0.1 | 0.0 |
| | Spain | -0.4 | -1.6 | -0.2 | -0.7 | -0.4 | -0.7 | 0.2 | -1.3 |
| | Sweden | -1.2 | 0.6 | -1.0 | -1.0 | 0.4 | -0.5 | -0.2 | -0.7 |
| | Turkey | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| | United Kingdom | 1.1 | 1.3 | -1.0 | -0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| | United States | -0.6 | -0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | -0.3 |
| | OECD-Total | -0.3 | -0.1 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | -0.3 |
| Last updated: 22 December 2011 | |||||||||
Information on data for Israel:https://doi.org/10.1787/888932315602https://doi.org/10.1787/888932315602 | |||||||||
| Source: Labour: Unit labour cost - quarterly indicators, Main Economic Indicators (database) | |||||||||