The slow improvement of labour market conditions is projected to continue in a large number of OECD countries
Employment quantity and labour market slack, 2015
Employment and the components of job quality
Dispersion of the bottom end of the disposable income distribution
Employment and low income rates
Gender disparities in labour market income (cont.)
Employment gaps with respect to prime-age men for selected disadvantaged groups (cont.)
Output and unemployment developments in the OECD since the onset of the Great Recession
A number of OECD countries experienced persistent deviations of unemployment from the pre-crisis NAIRU
Declines in productivity, working time and participation dampened the impact on unemployment
Lower labour productivity growth translated into lower real wage growth
Persistent increases in long-term and youth unemployment
The role of labour market policies and institutions for labour market resilience
The role of collective bargaining arrangements for firm-level adjustments to the Great Recession
Government spending stabilises aggregate demand during economic downturns
Government spending reduces unemployment during economic downturns
Government spending reduces long-term unemployment during economic downturns
Strict employment protection provisions for regular workers tended to reduce resilience
Automatic fiscal stabilisers contributed to labour market resilience
The responsiveness of spending on labour market programmes to changes in unemployment
The labour market continues to polarise
ICT has spread fast throughout the world
Some sectors have increased their use of ICT particularly rapidly
The rise of global value chains
The rise of China
Inequality is rising, especially at the top
Polarisation has occurred in almost all industries
The decline of manufacturing
In most countries, polarisation has largely reflected within-sector dynamics
The risk of automation in OECD countries
Younger people are better prepared for the digital working environment than older people
Job polarisation by country
Polarisation in China
Trends in union density
Trade union density by group, 2013
Employer organisation density
Trends in collective bargaining coverage rate
Collective bargaining coverage rate by industry and firm size
Detailed bargaining level
Trends in industrial disputes
Quality of labour relations
Employee representation coverage in Europe
Trade union membership by gender, 2015 or latest year available
Trade union membership by age group, 2015 or latest year available
Trade union membership by education level, 2015 or latest available year
Trade union membership by contract duration, 2015 or latest available year
Trade union membership by industry, 2015 or latest available year
Trade union membership by sector, 2015 or latest available year
Trade union membership by firm size,
Employer organisation membership by industry, 2013
Employer organisation membership by firm size, 2013
Collective agreement coverage by industry and firm size, latest year available
Correlation between employer organisation density and trade union density and collective bargaining coverage rate