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OECD, a leader in international measurement and analysis in social policy (2-page - .pdf)

List of main projects, publications and datasets, by the OECD Social Policy divison: income inequality, family & children, gender, housing, youth, pensions, social indicators, social protection expenditure & recipients, tax & benefit systems, etc.

Supporting people and companies to deal with the Covid-19 virus (Policy Brief)

This policy brief is a first attempt at setting out the employment and social-policy tools at governments’ disposal to counter the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 crisis. It is accompanied by an overview table of countries’ policy responses, available online, which will be continuously updated.

OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD): Gini, poverty, income, Methods and Concepts

Gini coefficients, poverty rates, income, etc. Incomes are more equally distributed and fewer people are poor where social spending is high: the Nordic countries and western European countries, such as Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands...

OECD High-Level Conference on Ending Violence Against Women

Violence against women remains a global pandemic. Worldwide, more than one out of three women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. Join OECD Ministers and other global leaders at the OECD in Paris on 5-6 February 2020 to discuss how to prevent, address, and eradicate violence against women.

Ageing and Employment Policies - Statistics on average effective age of retirement

One indicator of retirement behaviour that abstracts from more general factorsaffecting the level of participation rates is the average effective age at which older workers withdraw from the labour force

OECD Workshop on Homelessness and Affordable Housing Policies, 27th November 2019

The workshop is organised by the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

Youth employment and unemployment

OECD Ministers agreed to take a comprehensive range of measures as set out in the OECD Action Plan for Youth, with two main objectives. The first objective is to tackle the current situation of high youth unemployment and underemployment. The second objective is to produce better outcomes for youth in the longer run

Investing in Youth: Korea

OECD Workshop on Harnessing new social data, 16th October 2019

The workshop is organised by the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs with the support of the Treasury New Zealand, the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare and Accenture. It will be the first activity of the "Social Data for Tomorrow" programme called for by the 2018 OECD Ministerial Meeting on Social Policy.

Part-time and Partly Equal: Gender and Work in the Netherlands