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CHART 4.1

Public expenditures on labor market programs as a percent of GDP, 2003-04

  • Expenditures on labor market programs were less than 1 percent of GDP in Korea, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K.

  • The highest relative expenditures were by Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany.

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Chart of public expenditures on labor market programs as a percent of GDP, 2003-04

NOTE: 2003 for Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, and Sweden. 2004 for Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, and Spain. Fiscal year 2004 for the remaining countries.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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