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Abstract

This handbook of international labour market indicators has been compiled to enable easy access to a selection of the key labour market statistics that provide the basis of many cross-national comparisons. It will assist the labour market analyst to focus quickly on relevant information in a selection of industrialized countries. The handbook brings together within a single volume data that is usually only available from a number of different sources, some of them difficult to obtain, with a historical perspective over a ten-year period where the available statistics permit. The use of a long run of data is important, since many of the indicators can be questioned in terms of their validity when taken as absolute values for a single year, a problem which becomes less pronounced when trend analyses are used.