Tax rate on low wage earners - Unemployment trap

In 2019, Austria's tax rate on low wage earners decreased by 0.7% compared to 2018, reaching 142.4.

Austria accounts for 95.5% of the EU-27 total of 149.2.

Austria ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 4.2% (from 148.6 in 2014).

Source: Eurostat dataset tesem220, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.