Public expenditure on active labour market policies

Employment and labour markets: Key tables from OECD - ISSN 2075-2342 - © OECD 2009

	Public expenditure on active labour market policies
	% of GDP

		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
	Australia	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
	Austria	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7
	Belgium	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.3
	Canada	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3
	Czech Republic	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2
	Denmark	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.7	1.6	1.5	1.3
	Finland	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9
	France	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9
	Germany	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.8
	Greece	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Hungary	0.4	0.5	0.5	..	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
	Iceland	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Ireland	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6
	Italy	..	..	..	..	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5
	Japan	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
	Korea	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
	Luxembourg	..	..	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5
	Mexico	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Netherlands	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.1
	New Zealand	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3
	Norway	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6
	Poland	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	..	0.4	0.4	0.5
	Portugal	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5
	Slovak Republic	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2
	Spain	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
	Sweden	1.8	1.7	1.6	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.1
	Switzerland	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.6
	Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	United Kingdom	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3
	United States	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
	OECD-Total	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
Last updated: 27 August 2009
Source: Labour market programmes: expenditure and participants, OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics (database)

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