Friday, May 15, 2009
[IWS] OECD: UNIT LABOR COSTS RISE in 4th Quarter 2008 [15 May 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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OECD
Dataset: UNIT LABOR COST-- Quarterly Indicators
http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ULC_QUA
Press Release
OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: May 2009 [15 May 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_2649_33715_42764398_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/22/42764007.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]
Includes CHART & TABLES....
15/05/2009 - Largely driven by falls in real output (gross domestic product at constant prices) due to the crisis, unit labour costs for the total economy rose 0.9% for the OECD area in the fourth quarter of 2008 and were up 2.9% year on year. The group of the major seven economies and the Euro area display similar aggregate trends. Unit labour costs rose 1.0% in the market services sector for the OECD area in the fourth quarter of 2008 and 2.7% on an annual basis. Among the major seven economies, unit labour cost growth rates in market services only increased in the United States (1.3%) and Japan (0.8%) in the fourth quarter. etc.
AND MORE.....
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
OECD
Dataset: UNIT LABOR COST-- Quarterly Indicators
http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ULC_QUA
Press Release
OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: May 2009 [15 May 2009]
http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_2649_33715_42764398_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/22/42764007.pdf
[full-text, 4 pages]
Includes CHART & TABLES....
15/05/2009 - Largely driven by falls in real output (gross domestic product at constant prices) due to the crisis, unit labour costs for the total economy rose 0.9% for the OECD area in the fourth quarter of 2008 and were up 2.9% year on year. The group of the major seven economies and the Euro area display similar aggregate trends. Unit labour costs rose 1.0% in the market services sector for the OECD area in the fourth quarter of 2008 and 2.7% on an annual basis. Among the major seven economies, unit labour cost growth rates in market services only increased in the United States (1.3%) and Japan (0.8%) in the fourth quarter. etc.
AND MORE.....
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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