ANALYSIS OF MACRO LABOUR

COSTS DATA USING THE

INDIVIDUAL DATA

Romana Korenič

Radenci, 7. – 9. November 2011

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Content

• Introduction

• Method

• Results

• Further steps and conclusion

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Aim of the project

• Project is co-financed by Eurostat

• Establishing the database of different internationally

comparable indicators for further calculation of labour

productivity considering the labour heterogenity.

The project contains two tasks:

1. The calculation of labour costs for self-employed

2. The calculation of labour costs for different labour

categories (by gender, by educational level, by age

groups).

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Labour costs

• Labour costs of employees = Compensation of

employees

• Labour costs of self-employed = part of Mixed

income

Mixed income:

• Labour costs of self-employed

• Operating surplus

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Method

Disaggregation the National accounts data on:

• employment,

• compensation of employees and

• mixed income.

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Method (contd).

1. Linkage:• individual data from personal taxation database

• individual data from Statistical register of employed persons

2. Aggregation the data into 18 labour categories• Gender: 2

• Education: 3; low, medium, high

• Age groups: 3; 15-29, 30-50, 50+

3. Calculation the labour costs for self-employed

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Method (contd.)

Assumption:

labour costs for employees = labour costs for self

employed;

(within the same labour category within the same

activity)

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Labour composition by categories, 2009

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Average monthly labour costs by gender, 2009, EUR

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Average monthly labour costs by gender, age 30-50,

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Average monthly labour costs by level of education, 2009,

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Average monthly labour costs by level of education, men,

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Average monthly labour costs by age groups, 2009, EUR

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Average monthly labour costs by age groups, men, higher

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Summary of the results

Comparison among labour categories:

• Educational level: criteria with the biggest

influence on the differences in labour costs

among labour categories

• Gender: labour costs are not higher for men in

all activities

• Age: also important, differ widely among

categories and activities.

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Summary of the results (contd.)

Problem encountered• Labour costs for self employed in 2009

EUR 4,066 mio

• Mixed income in 2009 EUR 3,413 mio

• Assumption (labour costs are the same for all

employed persons within the same labour

category) seems to be problematic

• additional criteria should be taken into

consideration

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Further steps

• making calculation on the basis of different assumption, considering the difference in labour costs by institutional sector

• End of project: December 2012

• Publishing the data: 2013

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