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The Restated OECD Jobs Strategy put forward lines of action to create more and better jobs. And along these lines, the Employment Outlook , our annual flagship publication, analyses OECD labour market trends and monitors countries’ reforms.
In addition, a special attention is devoted to key issues such as: Labour Market Policies ; Jobs for Youth ; Sickness, disability and Work; Ageing and employment policies; and, through our Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) , workers' skills and their upgrading.
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09-Jul-2008
Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs, and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD report, Jobs for Youth: United Kingdom.
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11-Jun-2008
The recent performance of the youth labour market in Canada is very good compared with most other OECD countries, according to the just-released OECD report on Jobs for Youth: Canada.
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20-Feb-2008
New Zealand should encourage young people to stay in school past the age of 16 in order to boost their chances of finding a job, according to a new OECD report.
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23-Jan-2008
The Netherlands has a dynamic youth labour market but helping the hard core of disadvantaged young people find jobs will require comprehensive action on a range of fronts, according to a new OECD report.
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20-Dec-2007
Labour market outcomes for young people in Korea deteriorated in the aftermath of the financial crisis of the late 1990s. Though the government has introduced a wide range of measures since the early 2000s, much remains to be done to restore the dynamism of the youth labour market, according to a new OECD report.
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18-Dec-2007
A new OECD report analyses the sickness and disability policies in Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom. It recommends steps governments should take to reduce the number of people claiming sickness and disability benefits and help beneficiaries back into the labour market.
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13-Feb-2006
In an era of rapid population ageing, many employment and social policies, practices and attitudes that discourage work at an older age have passed their sell-by date and need to be overhauled. This publication makes an important contribution to establishing a new agenda of age-friendly employment policies and practices. It draws out the main lessons that have emerged from the 21 country reviews which have been published separately under the OECD’s series on “Ageing and Employment Policies/Vieillissement et politiques de l’emploi”.
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