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ISBN: 9264023844
Publication: 13/06/2006
280 pages
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Chapter 4. Policies Targeted at Specific Workforce Groups or Labour Market Segments
Are general reforms to support the overall functioning of the labour market sufficient to deliver good employment performance or are targeted measures to improve employment outcomes for particular groups also required? As policy priorities have shifted from lowering unemployment to raising employment rates more generally, it has become evident that there is a role for tailored policies which tackle the barriers to participation affecting groups in the working-age population who tend to be under-represented in employment or too often hold jobs that do not make full use of their productive potential. These groups include women, older workers, youth and immigrants. Which types of measures have proven to be most effective for each group? Should the scope of the Jobs Strategy also be expanded to encompass measures to address the problems faced by workers in lagging regions or informal employment?
For further reading, see the Key Reports on line and the supplementary statistical material of this chapter.
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Contents
1. Promoting employment prospects of under-represented groups
1.1. Measures to increase participation of women
1.2. Measures to increase participation of older people
1.3. Promoting employment prospects of youth
1.4. Promoting employment prospects of immigrants
2. Assisting workers in disadvantaged regions
3. Facilitating transitions from informal work to formal employment
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List of tables
4.1. Determinants of full- and part-time female employment, 1982-2003
4.2. Determinants of older worker employment (55-64 age group), 1982-99
4.3. Early-retirement, invalidity and old-age pension schemes: policy reforms over the 1994-2004 period
4.4. Unemployment rates of the native- and foreign-born populations, 15-64 years old, 2004
4.5. Employment rates of native- and foreign-born populations, 15-64 years old, 1994 and 2004
4.6. Housing tenure in the early 2000s
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4.1. Work incentives for women
4.2. Older worker participation and overall unemployment in OECD countries, 2004
4.3. Implicit tax embedded in early-retirement schemes on continuing work from age 60 to age 65, 1993-2003
4.4. Youth employment rates relative to those of adults, 1994 and 2004
4.5. Share of youth leaving school without a qualification in OECD countries, 2003
4.6. Share of young adults and teenagers neither in education nor in employment, 1996 and 2003
4.7. Differences between the PISA reading scores of natives and those of children of immigrants, youth aged 15 years, 2003
4.9. Regional unemployment dispersion and the overall unemployment rate, 2003
4.8. Regional dispersion in labour market performance within OECD countries, 2003
4.9. Regional unemployment dispersion and the overall unemployment rate, 2003
4.10. Internal migration rates, 2003
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