About one in three people of working age does not have a job in the OECD area. Faced with ageing populations, increasing employment rate has become crucial. And a further key challenge is to help companies and citizens to cope successfully with rapid technological change and globalisation.

Our work on Employment Policy put forward lines of action to respond to these challenges. It monitors countries’ employment reforms in key areas such active labour market policies, employment protection, minimum wage, vocational training and adult learning. It also provides country-specific analyses and tailored policy recommendations to help governments create more and better jobs for vulnerable groups, such as younger, older and disabled workers.

Our online Employment database allows to access labour market performances of OECD countries, as regards employment and unemployment, job duration, working time and earnings. It also gives a picture of labour market policies and institutions through various indicators such as, expenditures on labour market policies, strictness of employment protection legislation, minimum wage and union membership.

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