annex table a of oecd b provides comparable estimates for earlier recessions the jobs gap in q is somewhat smaller for the oecd area that that at the trough of the doubledip recession but larger than those for all other recessions since the workingage population shrank in austria germany and japan reducing the jobs gap estimates in these countries relative to that implied by the changes in the unemployment and participation rates ireland appears to have experienced a shift from net inmigration to net outmigration with the foreignbom workingage population declining between and oecd d