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		      <pubDate>Tue Jun 23 15:26:22 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Unemployment in OECD countries to approach 10% in 2010, says OECD]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Unemployment in OECD countries will continue to rise well into 2010, with the average unemployment rate approaching 10%, up from 7.8% in April, according to new OECD projections.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 23 15:30:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD unemployment rate rises to 7.8% in April 2009]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.8% in April 2009, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 09 12:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[France should prioritise the employment of disadvantaged young people]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[France should do more to ease the transition of unskilled young people into employment. The government should give priority to helping young people the furthest removed from the job market and to strengthening the social protection of the most disadvantaged, according to a new report by the OECD.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed May 20 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Governments must do more to help most vulnerable amid rising unemployment, urges OECD]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Governments must urgently adapt their labour market policies to help their most vulnerable citizens in the economic crisis, as was concluded at the High-Level Forum on Sickness, Disability and Work in May 2009. Key to this will be avoiding that the crisis further strengthens a disability benefit culture that pushes many people with disability onto benefit schemes and out of work for the rest of their lives.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Fri May 15 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Tackling the financial and economic crisis ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The global economic crisis is affecting families and communities across the planet. Restoring stability, confidence and growth is the priority: the OECD is working with the world’s governments and other organisations to get economies moving again.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Feb 03 10:52:45 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD’s Taxing Wages shows small reduction in taxes on individual wage earners in 2008]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Taxes on wage earners fell slightly in 2008 in many OECD countries, with Poland and Turkey showing the biggest drop for an unmarried person earning the average wage, according to the OECD’s annual Taxing Wages publication. But the situation for 2009 remains unclear as fiscal stimulus packages often include tax measures.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue May 12 11:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Australia should intervene quickly to avert a major rise in youth unemployment, says OECD]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Young people are likely to be hit hard by rising unemployment as the global downturn continues. In Australia, where more young people work than in most OECD countries, the government should encourage more teenagers to stay in school past the age of 16 in order to boost their skills and improve their long-term career prospects.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD unemployment rate rises to 7.8% in April 2009]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.8% in April 2009, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 09 12:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Seminar on Employment outcomes and inequality: Brazil, China and India]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate and the OECD Development Centre jointly organised a seminar on "Employment outcomes and inequality: New evidence, Links and Policy responses in Brazil, China and India" which took place on the 8th April 2009 at the OECD Conference Centre. Based on an in-depth assessment of labour market trends in each of these countries, the seminar discussed policy options towards more and better jobs.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Apr 15 12:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Rising informal employment will increase poverty]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Informal employment is at record levels worldwide with severe consequences for poverty in poor countries, according to Is Informal Normal?, a new report by the OECD Development Centre. ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Chile should create more and better jobs to cut poverty and inequality, says OECD]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Chile should invest more in employment and active social policies in order to reduce its high levels of income inequality and poverty, according to a new OECD report.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Massive rise in unemployment needs fast, decisive response, says OECD’s Gurria]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[“Governments need to take quick and decisive action to avoid the financial crisis becoming a fully-blown social crisis with scarring effects on vulnerable workers and low income households,” OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría told G8 Labour and Employment Ministers in Rome today.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Sweden’s sickness and disability reforms on track but could be improved, says OECD ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Sweden’s ongoing reforms of its sickness and disability policies are a step in the right direction but more needs to be done if they are to live up to their promise, according to a new OECD report.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Mar 04 13:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Creating Opportunities - Integration, Employment and Social Mobility: European Experiences and Scope for Manoeuvre]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[By Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General.The topic of the integration of immigrants is a particularly important one in these challenging times as OECD countries grapple with the economic and financial crisis and the rapid rise of unemployment. Integration is difficult even in good times, so we need to double our efforts to manage it well in bad times.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jan 27 00:01:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Japan could do more to help young people find stable jobs]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Young people in Japan are finding it increasingly hard to get permanent jobs and the Japanese authorities should expand vocational training schemes and increase social security coverage for young non-regular workers in order to help them.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Dec 18 09:00:00 CET 2008</pubDate>
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