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Table 1 Employment rates by the selected countries (as a share of working age population, aged 15–64)

From: Do non-wage cost rigidities slow down employment? Evidence from Turkey

 

Total

Men

Women

 

1995

2007

1995

2007

1995

2007

Bulgaria

50.4

61.7

54.7

66.0

46.3

57.6

Estonia

64.6

69.4

69.6

73.2

60.3

65.9

Latvia

59.9

68.3

65.1

72.5

55.1

64.4

Lithuania

62.3

64.9

66.2

67.9

58.6

62.2

Poland

58.9

57.0

66.8

63.6

51.3

50.6

Romania

65.4

58.8

71.9

64.8

59.1

52.8

Slovakia

60.6

60.7

67.8

68.4

53.5

53.0

EU-15

60.1

66.8

70.5

74.2

49.7

59.5

EU-27

60.7

65.3

70.0

72.5

51.4

58.2

Turkey

50.0

41.5

71.8

62.7

28.7

21.0

  1. Source: Eurostat (2012) for EU countries; Turkstat (2012) for Turkey.
  2. Note: The earliest data available for Poland, Romania and EU-27 is 1997, for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is 1998, and for Bulgaria is 2000.