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High unemployment, exclusion and poverty tear at the fabric of society and can unravel economies.
The OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs helps economies to formulate policies to boost employment and improve social welfare by reforming labour markets, improving the performance of health systems and designing international migration policies that promote economic growth and development.
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25-Mar-2008
Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the China Development Forum 2008 (Beijing, March 23, 2008)
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20-Feb-2008
OECD governments need to do more to help immigrants integrate and make better use of their skills, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.
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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-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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29-Nov-2007
Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in birth-rates, according to a new OECD report. Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work and family commitments.
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22-Nov-2007
The 2007 edition of Health at a Glance has been released in November 2007. It provides the latest comparable data and trends on the performane of health systems in OECD countries.
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04-Sep-2007
The 2007 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook has been released in June. It addresses labour markets in the BRICs; the impact of labour market policies on productivity; the vulnerability of workers in the global economy; the financing of social protection; anf the way countries activate the unemployed.
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25-Jun-2007
The International Migration Outlook has been published in June 2007. International migration has jumped up the policy agenda in OECD countries. This annual publication analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries.
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