Economics: Key tables from OECD - ISSN 2074-384x - © OECD 2013
| | Quarterly unit labour cost | ||||||||
| | Percentage change over previous period | ||||||||
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| | | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |||||
Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | ||
| | Australia | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | -1.1 | 0.5 | -0.2 |
| | Austria | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| | Belgium | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
| | Canada | 0.7 | -0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| | Czech Republic | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.1 | -0.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| | Denmark | -0.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | -0.4 | 0.8 | -0.8 | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| | Estonia | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| | Finland | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| | France | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| | Germany | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 0.4 |
| | Greece | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| | Hungary | 0.9 | 0.8 | -0.2 | 3.2 | 2.2 | -0.2 | -1.2 | -0.4 |
| | Ireland | -1.2 | 0.0 | -0.8 | 0.7 | -0.7 | 2.1 | -0.4 | .. |
| | Israel 1 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.8 | -0.1 | 0.9 | .. | |
| | Italy | 0.4 | -1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| | Japan | 1.1 | -2.6 | -0.1 | -1.2 | -0.4 | 0.9 | -0.5 | -0.5 |
| | Korea | -1.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 5.0 | -2.8 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 3.0 |
| | Luxembourg | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.2 | .. |
| | Netherlands | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.7 | .. |
| | New Zealand | 0.4 | -0.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.1 | -0.6 | 0.2 | .. |
| | Norway | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 4.4 |
| | Poland | 0.5 | 0.8 | -0.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.1 | .. | .. |
| | Portugal | 0.1 | -2.1 | 0.3 | -4.5 | 1.7 | -0.5 | 2.3 | -2.4 |
| | Slovak Republic | -0.1 | 0.3 | -1.8 | 0.2 | 1.3 | -0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| | Slovenia | 0.2 | -0.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | -0.3 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -0.2 |
| | Spain | 0.0 | -1.0 | 0.0 | -0.7 | -1.4 | -0.8 | -3.1 | 2.2 |
| | Sweden | -0.1 | -0.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | -0.3 |
| | Turkey | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| | United Kingdom | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | .. | .. |
| | United States | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | -0.1 | 2.2 | -0.9 |
| | Euro area | 0.5 | -0.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| | OECD-Total | 0.3 | -0.3 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 | -0.1 |
| Last updated: 20 June 2013; disclaimer: http://oe.cd/disclaimer | |||||||||
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| Source: Unit labour cost, Main Economic Indicators (database) | |||||||||