SGI 2024 | Sustainable Policymaking | Economic Sustainability | Sustainable Taxation | Financial Disincentives to Return to Work

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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Percentage of earnings lost to either higher taxes or lower benefits when a jobseeker returns to work after two months of unemployment. Calculations refer to a person with two children whose partner works full-time at 67% of the average wage.
Year:	2023
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD
Data for:
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Participation tax rate (PTR) for families claiming unemployment benefits 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:	33.1
Maximum:	100
/	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

Financial Disincentives to Return to Work

Australia

10.0

24.90

New Zealand

10.0

29.70

10.0

33.30

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Upper middle group

Ireland

8.3

45.80

Poland

7.9

48.70

USA

7.9

48.90

Greece

7.8

49.80

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Canada

6.4

59.90

Hungary

6.0

62.70

Slovenia

5.6

65.50

Spain

5.6

66.00

Lower middle group

Sweden

5.3

67.80

Finland

5.3

68.30

Austria

5.1

69.80

Israel

4.8

71.70

Denmark

4.8

71.90

Belgium

4.7

72.80

Norway

4.6

72.90

Italy

4.6

73.30

Estonia

4.5

74.10

France

4.4

74.90

Czechia

4.2

76.10

Slovakia

3.8

79.40

Switzerland

3.7

79.80

Netherlands

3.6

80.60

Germany

3.5

81.20

Japan

3.4

82.40

Portugal

3.1

84.70

Lithuania

2.8

86.60

Latvia

2.7

87.10

Bottom group

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