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29-September-2010
English
This single-country report in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work explores some of the reasons behind this phenomena in Canada and the potential of its innovative recent and ongoing reforms.
7-July-2010
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Unemployment has risen more sharply in the United States following the recent global financial crisis than in most other OECD countries.
7-July-2010
English, , 149kb
Since the onset of the global crisis, unemployment rate in France increased by 2.1 percentage points between December 2007 and May 2010, a milder increase compared to the OECD average (2.8 percentage points).
7-July-2010
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Canada’s labour market is emerging from the global recession somewhat faster than most other advanced economies.
7-July-2010
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After one of the most severe recessions in the OECD area the Irish economy is now stabilizing but the recession left significant scars in the labour market that will take time to heal.
7-July-2010
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La tasa de desempleo alcanzó el 5.7% en mayo 2010, con un incremento del 50% desde finales de 2007.
7-July-2010
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Despite a large output contraction in Germany, unemployment has barely budged. During the recession real GDP declined by -6.7%, substantially more than the average decline in the OECD area of -4.8%. But in spite of the sharp decline in output, employment and unemployment were relatively stable.&
7-July-2010
Korean, , 332kb
In a sharp contrast with other OECD countries, the unemployment rate in Korea has already returned to its pre-crisis level during the recovery. The Korean harmonised unemployment rate in May was 3.2%, as compared to 3.1% at the onset of the global financial crisis in December 2007.
7-July-2010
English, , 187kb
Since the global economic crisis began at the end of 2007 more than 2.5 million workers have joined the ranks of the unemployed in Spain, out of a total of 4.6 million workers in the Euro area as a whole.
7-July-2010
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Unemployment in Mexico reached 5.7% in May 2010, a 50% increase from the end of 2007. Although this is a substantial increase comparable to that in the OECD countries on average (48.3%), Mexico’s unemployment rate remains relatively low from an international perspective.
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