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Table 1: Overall, in 20 years’ time, would you say that people’s lives in your country will be better or
worse than today? Would you say that you are very or fairly confident in having a job in
2 year’s time?

EU-27 countries

COUNTRY

% worse than today

confidence in having a
job in 2 year’s time (%)

EPL strictness
(2003)

EU-15 members

Germany

67.8

48

2.21

Greece

66.9

37

2.83

France

64.3

45

3.05

Luxembourg

58.8

48

-

Italy

58.3

34

1.95

Belgium

57.9

49

2.18

UK

56.3

61

0.75

Austria

55.6

58

1.94

Portugal

53.2

39

3.46

Netherlands

38.3

62

2.12

Spain

37.4

43

3.05

Finland

37.3

59

2.02

Sweden

34.7

60

2.24

Denmark

32.4

61

1.42

Ireland

24.9

59

1.11

New members

Cyprus

54.9

44

-

Slovenia

45.2

41

-

Hungary

37.9

33

1.52

Czech Rep.

32.2

56

1.90

Malta

22.8

39

-

Poland

22.6

29

1.74

Lithuania

20.2

42

-

Bulgaria

19.9

27

-

Latvia

19.4

54

-

Slovakia

19.3

29

1.34

Romania

17.1

40

-

Estonia

11.3

45

-

Sources: Flash Eurobarometer no. 227, 2008 & Special Eurobarometer 26, 2006

OECD Stat Extracts, Dataset: Strictness of EPL —overall (version 1). Available online:
http://stats.oecd.org/wbos?Index.aspx?DatasetCode=EPL_OV

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