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EU Countries with Flat tax systemLithuania 24%
Latvia 25%
Estonia 22%
Slovakia 19%
Bulgaria(from 1 January) 10%
Romania 16%
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POPULATION AND SIZE
POLAND
Population: 38.5 million (2008)
Area: 312,685 sq. km
BELARUS
Population: 9.685 mill.
(June 2008)
Area: 207,600 sq km
RUSSIA
Population: 142.2 mill. (2007)
Area: 17,075,200 sq km
LATVIA
Population: 2,271 mill.
Area: 64,589 sq km
ESTONIA
Population: 1,341 mill.
Area: 45,226 sq km
LITHUANIA
Population: 3,366 mill.
Area: 65,200 sq km
KALININGRAD OBLAST
Population: 947,000
Area: 15,100 sq km
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INFLIATION
12.6% (Jan 2008)
11.3%*
17.9%*
12%*
2.5%(2007)
8.4% (2007 est)
9.3%(8/2007)
*LT, LV, EE – May 2008
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
4.2%*
6.5%
4.9%5.9% (Jan. 2007)
12.8% (2007 est.)
1.7% (2007)
6.2%
*LT, LV, EE – Q1 2008
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Average gross monthly earnings
788 EUR*
645 EUR
623 EUR
268 EUR
770 EUR (9/2007)
375 EUR
348 EUR
*Q1 2008 (LT, LV, EE)
(2007) in Euros
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GDP GROWTH
7.1%
10.3%
8.8%11.2%*
*2006
Q1 2008 - EE 0.1%; LV 3.3%; LT 7%
6.5% (est.)
8.1%
8 %
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GDP per Capita (2007 est.)*
$21,100
$17,400
$17,700
$14,700
$16,300
$10,900
*CIA- The World Factbook
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Labour productivity per person employed (EU 25)
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Real GDP Growth Rate (2006)
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Expenditure on social protection as a percentage of GDP (2004)
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Lithuania – Human Development Index
• Lithuania ranks at 43 in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index. Estonia ranks at 44 and Latvia ranks at 45.
• HDI - living a long and healthy life (measured by life expectancy), being educated (measured by adult literacy and enrolment at the primary, secondary and tertiary level) and having a decent standard of living (measured by purchasing power parity, PPP, income).
• At ranking 43 out of 177 countries – Lithuania is listed as - a ‘High Human Development Country’.
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Total expenditure on social protection
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Active Labour Market Policy % GDP (averages 1997 – 2004)
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Index of Fatal Accidents at Work 1998-2005 (per 100,000 employees)
source: Eurostat
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Fatal accidents at work Index of the number of fatal accidents at work per 100 thousand
persons in employment (1998=100)
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Serious accidents at work 2005 Index 1998=100
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Deaths due to suicide (SDR per 100,000) males
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At risk of poverty after social transfers 2005
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Tax rate on low wage earners: unemployment trap
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Tax rate on low wage earners: couple with 2 children
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Food and non-alcoholic beverages (% of household income expenditure) 2005
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Inequality of income distribution (income quintile share ratio) 2005
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Relation between income inequality and life expectancy
Source: HEALTH STATUS AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN AN ENLARGED EUROPE Report prepared by European Observatory on the Social Situation LOT 4: Health Status and Living Conditions Network for the DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities, European Commission Final Report December 2005 p.64 http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_situation/docs/sso2005_healthlc_report.pdf
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Recent demographic developments in Europe 2004. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing 2005
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Male life expectancy at birth 2005
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Net trade union density in EU25, 1995–2004 (%)Source: European Foundation, Industrial Relations in EU Member States 2000-2004 p.6.
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Collective bargaining coverage in EU25, 2002 (%) Source: European Foundation, Industrial Relations in EU Member States 2000-2004 p.14.
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Trade unionisation in the Baltic States
• Latvia –15% of workforce (EIRO report. 2005)
• Lithuania – 10% of the workforce (EIRO report, 2005)
• Estonia –9% of the workforce (LFS, 2006)
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Density rate of employer organisations in EU25 (%) Source: European Foundation, Industrial Relations in EU Member States 2000-2004 p.12.
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Average number of working days not worked due to strike action per 1,000 employees, EU25, 2000–2004
Source: European Foundation, Industrial Relations in EU Member States 2000-2004 p.23.
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Did your employer provide cash-in-hand payments for overtime or other work in the last twelve months?
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Migration – a crisis of human resources
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Scale of labour outflow since EU accession in 2004
• Lithuania (3.3%) and Latvia (2.4%) registered outflow of working age population.
• In Slovakia, Poland and Estonia, the scale of outflow was somewhat smaller – about 1%
• LABOR MIGRATION FROM THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES: World Bank, EU8,Quarterly Economic Report, PART II: Special Topic, September 2006,World Bank Report p.22
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Proportion of people who think that they are likely to move to another EU Member State in the next five years (percentages)
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Quality of life % satisfied by
country source: EQL Survey
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Standard of living
% satisfied by country
source: EQL Survey
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‘Non-circular’ migration
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Proposals of World Bank
• Governments would be well-advised to manage labor migration more proactively.
• Further measures are needed to stimulate labor force participation and employment, including reducing high labor taxes and in some cases social benefits.
• EU8 countries should also consider phasing in—in tandem with capacity development for screening needed labor—a more liberal regime for importing labor from countries further east.
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The ‘Hard Landing’ scenario…