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Creating more and better jobs is a major task for most governments. Our work on the
- Employment Outlook,
- the Restated OECD Jobs Strategy,
- labour market policies,
- upgrading workers' skills (PIAAC project) and
- younger, older and disabled people helps address this challenge.
Our large range of labour market statistics and indicators also provide the hard facts.
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from 23-Jun-2008 to 24-Jun-2008
Jointly organised by OECD and ILO, this roundtable will be devoted to the theme of "Employment and Industrial Relations: Promoting Responsible Business Conduct in a Globalising Economy". Discussions will focus on wider dissemination of good corporate labour practices and better understanding and use of the OECD and ILO instruments. The roundtable aims to foster mutual understanding and trust between relevant actors in developed and emerging markets on approaches to promote responsible business conduct.
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
Should central government leave economic and employment development to local policy makers? Employment ministers from OECD countries, including Finland, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, will address such questions at a conference in Venice, Italy, from 17-19 April 2008.
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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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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-Dec-2007
Faced with labour shortages and pressures on pension funding due to ageing populations, one in three OECD countries has cut unemployment benefits in the last six years with a view to encouraging unemployed people to find jobs, according to a new OECD report.
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16-Jul-2007
In 1994, the OECD undertook a major study of the factors underlying the deterioration of labour market performance and the 2006 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides an overall reassessment of the OECD Jobs Strategy.
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