A decade of labour market reforms in the EU: insights from the LABREF database

Table 1 Correlation between reform numbers in LABREF and FRDB-IZA databases (14 EU countries, 2000–2007)

	ALMP	EPL	Early withdrawal	Unemployment benefits	Welfare benefits	Overall (a)
AT	0.844	0.861	0.889	0.726	0.258	0.731
BE	0.241	0.701	−0.204	1.000	0.845	0.744
DE	−0.299	0.958	0.788	0.400	−0.730	0.457
DK	0.703	N.A. (b)	0.174	0.905	−0.143	0.519
EL	0.500	−0.083	N.A. (b)	0.822	0.726	0.448
ES	0.097	0.784	0.596	0.680	0.556	0.491
FI	0.921	0.655	0.000	0.962	0.487	0.582
FR	0.823	0.433	0.293	0.197	0.641	0.603
IE	0.746	0.593	0.417	0.655	0.881	0.645
IT	0.278	0.149	N.A. (b)	0.527	N.A. (b)	0.379
NL	0.128	−0.204	0.040	0.165	−0.267	0.169
PT	−0.195	0.726	0.354	0.957	0.635	0.707
SE	0.659	0.284	0.447	0.383	0.749	0.479
UK	0.322	−0.314	−0.249	N.A. (b)	0.567	0.218
Overall (a)	0.522	0.390	0.365	0.637	0.313	0.503

Notes. (a) Overall correlations are run across the number of reforms as reported by different sources, with reform domains ‘stacked’ in a single vector, and differ from the averages of correlations by domain
(b) The correlation is missing whenever at least one of the datasets records zero reforms over the whole period.