SGI 2024 | Sustainable Policymaking | Economic Sustainability | Adaptive Labor Markets

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Time series

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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Share of workers earning less than 2/3 of median earnings.
Year:	2023
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD
Data for:
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Low-wage earners as a proportion of all employees (excluding apprentices) by sex [earn_ses_pub1s] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted 2024/08/28.
Source 2:	Eurostat
Data for:
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Incidence of low and high pay URL: https://data-explorer.oecd.o… extracted 2024/08/28.

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	35.8675
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Low-wage Earners

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New Zealand

9.1

3.43

Sweden

9.1

3.61

Italy

9.0

3.90

Upper middle group

Portugal

8.5

6.00

Norway

8.3

6.82

Netherlands

8.2

7.10

France

8.0

8.12

Finland

7.8

8.87

Denmark

7.5

9.77

Japan

7.4

10.40

Spain

7.4

10.40

Greece

7.4

10.50

Belgium

7.0

11.80

Switzerland

7.0

12.10

Austria

6.4

14.36

Slovenia

6.1

15.60

Germany

6.0

16.00

Slovakia

6.0

16.00

Lower middle group

Ireland

5.9

16.50

Australia

5.6

17.49

Czechia

5.6

17.49

Poland

5.4

18.50

Canada

5.2

19.16

Hungary

5.2

19.30

Estonia

5.1

19.38

Latvia

4.7

21.30

Lithuania

4.6

21.60

USA

4.2

23.28

Israel

4.1

23.38

4.1

23.50

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Bottom group

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