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Employment Outlook 2006

Editorial: Boosting Jobs and Incomes (pdf)
Chapter 1: Short-term labour market prospects and introduction to the OECD Jobs Strategy Reassessment
                Download the Tables of chapter 1 
Chapter 2: Labour market performance since 1994 and future challenges (pdf)  
                Additional material for Chapter 2 (xls)
Chapter 3: General policies to improve employment opportunities for all (pdf)
                Additional material for Chapter 3 (xls)
Chapter 4: Policies targeted at specific workforce groups or labour-market segments (pdf)
                Additional material for Chapter 4 (xls)
Chapter 5: Social implications of policies aimed at raising employment (pdf)
                Additional material for Chapter 5 (xls)
Chapter 6: Understanding policy interactions and complementarities, and their implication for reform strategies (pdf)
Chapter 7: Reassessing the role of policies and institutions for labour market performance: A quantitative analysis (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)
Multilingual summaries

Employment Outlook 2005

Editorial: Globalisation: Coping with the Challenge (pdf)  
Introduction: Short-term Employment Prospects) (pdf)
                   Background material: Introduction -Tables
Chapter 1: Trade-adjustment costs in OECD labour markets: a mountain or a molehill? (pdf)
                Background material: Annexes 1.A1, 1.A2 and 1.A3
Chapter 2: How persistent are regional disparities in employment? The role of geographic mobility (pdf)
                Background material: Annex 2.A2
Chapter 3: Increasing financial incentives to work: the role of in-work benefits (pdf)
                Background material: Limitations of the METR approach (pdf) 
Chapter 4: Labour market programmes and activation strategies: evaluating the impacts (pdf)
Chapter 5: Public employment services: managing performance (pdf)
Statistical Anneex (pdf)
Multilingual summaries

Employment Outlook 2004

Editorial: Reassessing the OECD Jobs strategy (pdf)
Chapter 1: Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects (pdf)
                Background material: Supplementary tables on working time (pdf)
Chapter 2: Employment Protection Regulation and Labour Market Performance (pdf)
                Background material: A detailed description of EPL in force in 2003 (pdf)
Chapter 3: Wage-setting Institutions and Outcomes (pdf)
                Background material: Recent Wage developments in OECD countries (pdf)
Chapter 4: Improving Skills for More and Better Jobs: Does Training Make a Difference? (pdf)
                Background material: A General empirical model to estimate the impact of training on individual labour market performance (pdf)
Chapter 5: Informal Employment and Promoting the Transition to a Salaried Economy (pdf)
                Background material: Informal employment : Survey methods of measurement and national policy reviews (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)
Multilingual summaries

Employment Outlook 2003

September 2003 meeting of OECD Employment and Labour Ministers
Introduction: Towards More and Better Jobs (pdf)
Chapter 1. More and better jobs? Aggergate performance during the past decade (pdf)
Chapter 2. The Labour Mobilisation Challenge - Remaining Pockets of Excess Inactivity and Barriers to Moving up Job Ladders (pdf)
Chapter 3. Making Work Pay – Making Work Possible (pdf)
Chapter 4. Benefits and Employment, Friend or Foe? Interactions Between Passive and Active Social Programmes (pdf)
Chapter 5. Upgrading Workers’ Skills and Competencies (pdf)
Statistical Annex
Multilingual summaries

Employment Outlook 2002

Editorial: Surveying the jobs horizon (pdf)
Chapter 1. Recent labour market developments and prospects - Special focus: a better start for youths? (pdf)
Chapter 2. Women at work: who are they and how are they faring? (pdf)
Chapter 3. Taking the meaures of temporary employment (pdf)
Chapter 4. The ins and outs of long-term unemployment (pdf)
Chapter 5. And the twain shall meet: cross-market effects of labour and product market policies (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)
Multilingual summaries

Employment Outlook 2001

Editorial: Reconciling social and employment goals (pdf)
Chapter 1. : Recent labour market developments and prospects - Special focus on labour market policies: how the money has been spents (pdf)
Chapter 2. When money is tight: Poverty dynamics in OECD countries (pdf)
Chapter 3. The characteristics and quality of service sector jobs (pdf)
Chapter 4. Balancing work and family life: helping parents into paid employment (pdf)
Chapter 5. The employment of foreigners: Outlook and issues in OECD countries (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)
Multilingual summaries

Employment Outlook 2000

Editorial: Rewarding Work (pdf)
Chapter 1. Recent labour market developments and prospects - Special focus on the evolution of employment in the new OECD Member Countries (pdf)
Chapter 2. Disparities in regional labour markets (pdf)
Chapter 3. Employment in the service economy: A reassessment (pdf)
Chapter 4. Eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits (pdf)
Chapter 5. The partial renaissance of self-employment (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)

Employment Outlook 1999

Editorial: Giving Youth a Better Start (pdf)
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects - Special focus on the quality of part-time jobs (pdf)
Chapter 2. Employment Protection and Labour Market Performance (pdf)
Chapter 3. Training of Adult Workers in OECD Countries: Measurement and Analysis (pdf)
Chapter 4. New Enterprise Work Practices and their Labour Market Implications (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)

Employment Outlook 1998

Editorial: Towards an Employment-centred Social Policy (pdf)
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects - Special focus on patterns of employment and joblessness from a household perspective (pdf)
Chapter 2. Making the Most of the Minimum: Statutory Minimum Wages, Employment and Poverty (pdf)
Chapter 3. Getting Started, Settling In: The Transition from Education to the Labour Market (pdf)
Chapter 4. Work-force Ageing in OECD Countries (pdf)
Chapter 5. Working Hours: Latest Trends and Policy Initiatives (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)

Employment Outlook 1997

Editorial: Low-wage Jobs: Stepping Stones to a Better Future or Traps? (pdf)
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects (pdf)
Chapter 2. Earnings Mobility: Taking a Longer Run View (pdf)
Chapter 3. Economic Performance and the Structure of Collective Bargaining (pdf)
Chapter 4. Trade, Earnings and Employment: Assessing the Impact of Trade with Emerging Economies on OECD Labour Markets (pdf)
Chapter 5. Is Job Insecurity on the Increase in OECD Countries? (pdf)
Statistical Annex

Employment Outlook 1996

Editorial: Countering the Risks of Labour Market Exclusion (pdf)
Chapter 1 . Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects (pdf)
Chapter 2. Making Work Pay (pdf)
Chapter 3. Earnings Inequality, Low-paid Employment and Earnings Mobility (pdf)
Chapter 4. Growing into Work: Youth and the Labour Market over the 1980s and 1990s (pdf)
Chapter 5. Employment Adjustment, Workers and Unemployment (pdf)
Statistical Annex (pdf)

Employment Outlook 1995

Editorial: Making Active Labour Market Policies More Effective (2 300 Ko)
Part I . Labour Market Prospects and Developments
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects (2 073 Ko)
Chapter 2. Supplementary Measures of Labour Market Slack: An Analysis of Discouraged and Involuntary Part-time Workers (2 979 Ko)
Part I I. Key Issues for Labour Market and Social Policies
Chapter 3. The Public Employment Service in Denmark, Finland and Italy (1 717 Ko)
Chapter 4. Profit-sharing in OECD Countries (694 Ko)
Chapter 5. Long-term Leave for Parents in OECD Countries (1 435 Ko)

Employment Outlook 1994

Editorial: Creating Viable and Productive Jobs (452 Ko)
Part I . Labour Market Prospects and Developments
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects (4 063 Ko)
Chapter 2. Medium-term Perspectives on Labour Supply and Occupational Change (1 133 Ko)
Part II. Key Issues for Labour Market and Social Policies
Chapter 3. Job Gains and Job Losses in Firms (1 358 Ko)
Chapter 4. Labour Standards and Economic Integration (1 405 Ko)
Chapter 5. Collective Bargaining: Levels and Coverage (1 458 Ko)

Employment Outlook 1993

Editorial: Growth and Employment: A Key Role for Human Resource Development
Part I . Monitoring Labour Market Prospects and Developments
Chapter 1. Labour Market Prospects and Recent Developments
Chapter 2. Active Labour Market Policies: Assessing Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects
Part II. Key Issues for Labour Market and Social Policies
Chapter 3. Long-term Unemployment: Selected Causes and Remedies
Chapter 4. Enterprise Tenure, Labour Turnover and Skill Training
Chapter 5. Earnings Inequality: Changes in the 1980s
Statistical Annex

Employment Outlook 1992

Editorial: Fighting Unemployment: Action on Labour Market Reforms
Part I . Labour Market Prospects and Developments
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects
Chapter 2. Monitoring Labour Market Developments
Chapter 3. The Public Employment Service in Japan, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom
Part II. Key Issues for Labour Market and Social Policies
Chapter 4. Recent Developments in Self-employment
Chapter 5. Labour Market Participation and Retirement of Older Workers
Chapter 6. Labour Market Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Unemployment
Statistical Annex

Employment Outlook 1991

Editorial: Labour Market Reform: Staying the Course
Part I .Labour Market Developments and Prospects
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects
Chapter 2. A Review of Labour Markets in the 1980s
Chapter 3. Labour Markets in Dynamic Asian Economies
Part I I. Key Issues for Labour Market and Social Policies
Chapter 4. Trends in Trade Union Memberships
Chapter 5. Enterprise-related Training
Chapter 6. Absence from Work Reported in Labour Force Surveys
Chapter 7. Unemployment Benefit Rules and Labour Market Policy
Statistical Annex

Employment Outlook 1990

Editorial: Labour Markets in the 1990s: Challenges and Opportunities (252 Ko)
Chapter 1. Labour Market Trends and Prospects in the OECD Area (930 Ko)
Chapter 2. Displacement and Job Loss: The Workers Concerned (532 Ko)
Chapter 3. Supply and Demand in Regional Labour Markets: Population Growth, Migration, Participation, and Earnings Differentials (3378 Ko)
Chapter 4. Occupational Illness in OECD Countries (1160 Ko)
Chapter 5. Child Care in OECD Countries (755 Ko)
Chapter 6. Employer Versus Employee Taxation: The Impact on Employment (1280 Ko)
Chapter 7. Involuntary Part-time Work as a Component of Underemployment (264 Ko
Statistical Annex (418 Ko)

Employment Outlook 1989

Editorial: The Path to Full Employment: Structural Adjustment for an Active Society (121 Ko)
Chapter 1:  Labour Market Trends and Prospects (1775 Ko)
Chapter 2:  Educational Attainment of the Labour Force (3653 Ko)
Chapter 3:  Regional Unemployment in OECD Countries (1886 Ko)
Chapter 4:  Occupational Accidents in OECD Countries(1323 Ko)
Chapter 5:  Characteristics of Employment in Growing and Declining Industries(1064 Ko)
Statistical Annex
 (544 Ko)

Employment Outlook 1988

Editorial: Steps towards an Active Society
Chapter 1. Labour Market Trends and Prospects in the OECD Area
Chapter 2. Longer-run Labour Market Issues
Chapter 3. Profiles of Labour Market Budgets 1985-1987
Chapter 4. Description of Unemployment Benefit Systems in OECD Countries
Chapter 5. Women's Activity, Employment and Earnings: A Review of Recent Developments
Chapter 6. Technology and Employment

Employment Outlook 1987

Editorial: Activity for All in Tomorrow's Society
Part I . Labour Market Developments in the OECD Area
Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Trends
Chapter 2. Labour Market Prospects
Part II. Detailed Analyses of Key Labour Market Issues
Chapter 3. Occupational Differentials in Earnings and Labour Demand
Chapter 4. The Process of Job Creation and Job Destruction
Chapter 5. Who Are the Unemployed? Measurement, Issues and their Policy Implications
Chapter 6. On the Margin of the Labour Force: An Analysis of Discouraged Workers and Other Non-participants
Chapter 7. Long-term Unemployment

Employment Outlook 1986

Policies for Employment in a Changing Economy
Part I . Labour Market Developments in the OECD Area
Chapter 1. Short-term Labour Market Developments and Prospects
Part II. Detailed Analyses of Key Labour Market Issues
Chapter 2. Self-employment in OECD Countries
Chapter 3. Concealed Employment
Chapter 4. Non-wage Labour Costs and Employment
Chapter 5. The Youth Labour Market Problem: Age and Generational Crowding

Employment Outlook 1985

Employment Growth, Flexibility and Job Security: A Challenge for All
Part I . Labour Market Developments in the OECD Area
Chapter 1. Short-term Labour Market Developments and Prospects
Chapter 2. Medium-term Labour Market Developments
Part I I. Detailed Analyses of Key Labour Market Issues
Chapter 3. The Labour Market Implications of International Migration in Selected OECD Countries
Chapter 4. Employment in Small and Large Firms: Where Have the Jobs Come from?
Chapter 5. Relatives Wages, Industrial Structure and Employment Performance
Chapter 6. Moving In and Out of Unemployment: The Incidence and Patterns of Recurrent Unemployment in Selected OECD Countries

Employment Outlook 1984

Jobs, Efficiency and Equity in Today's Labour Market
Part I . The Labour Market in the Recovery
Chapter 1. Labour Market Developments
Chapter 2. Labour Market Prospects
Part I I. Selected Medium-term Developments in Employment and Unemployment
Chapter 3. The Contribution of Services to Employment
Chapter 4. The Importance of Long-term Job Attachment in OECD Countries
Chapter 5. Do Relative Wage Levels Affect Youth Employment?
Chapter 6. Unemployment and Family Income

Employment Outlook 1983

The Employment Imperative and Labour Market Policies
Part I . The Labour Market in the Latest Recession
Chapter 1. Labour Market Developments
Chapter 2. Labour Market Prospects
Part I I. Employment and Unemployment: Selected Medium-term Developments
Chapter 3. The Determinants of Working Hours
Chapter 4. Part-time Employment in OECD Countries
Chapter 5. Long-term Unemployment in OECD Countries
Chapter 6. The Nature of Youth-adult Unemployment Differentials

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