your comment " how high the USA is on labor market "inactivity" - higher than OECD averages in almost every category." reminded me of the charts/data I was looking for.  I thought based on your wording we were thinking along the same vein.  I think the data compares the working population to either total population, or working age population.  It's a different way of looking at this, stripping away all of the different buckets countries sometimes put the unemployed in for statistical purposes.  Our previous conversations had focused on the group of people that had just given up looking for jobs.

I should be able to find this myself, but I have not been successful.