Fig. 1From: Automatic stabilizers—the intersection of labour market and fiscal policiesSize of public sector and automatic stabilizers. Note: Public sector size measured by the gross tax burden in percent of GDP in 2005 and automatic stabilizers as the automatic budget response, i.e. the change in budget position relative to GDP to a 1 percentage point change in GDP. Source: Internet: www.oecd-ilibrary.org and Girouard and André (2005)Back to article page