Long Time-Series for Public Expenditure on Labour Market Programmes (Employment, Social and Migration Working paper No. 73, 2008)

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03-Dec-2008

This paper documents how data for the 1985-2002 period have been used to reconstruct time-series comparable to the series currently available.

What Drives the NAIRU? Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

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17-Nov-2008

Christian Gianella, Isabell Koske, Elena Rusticelli and Olivier Chatal

This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach.

Socio-Economics in Mortality - Implications for pensions policy (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers N° 71)

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07-Nov-2008

Edward R. Whitehouse and Asghar Zaidi

The analyses included in the report show that there are big socio-economic differences in mortality, especially for men, and they appear to have become bigger over time.

Speed of adjustment to selected labour market and tax reforms

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29-Oct-2008

Annabelle Mourougane and Lukas Vogel

This paper examines the nature and the length of economic adjustments to selected structural reforms, drawing on a variety of approaches: descriptive analysis and simulations using Dynamic General Equilibrium and macro-economic neo-Keynesian models.

International Mobility of Health Professionals and Health Workforce Management in Canada: Myths and Realities

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16-Oct-2008

Jean-Christophe Dumont, Pascal Zurn, Jody Church and Christine Le Thi

This report (Health Working Paper No. 40) examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce but also the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management
policies.

The US Physician Workforce: Where Do We Stand?

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15-Oct-2008

Richard A. Cooper

This review surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates.

The Dynamics of Social Asssistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 67)

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01-Oct-2008

Lorenzo Capellari and Stephen P. Jenkins

There is interest in learning about the factors associated with the chances of moving into receipt or of moving off receipt of social assistance benefit. This paper models the dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey, waves 1–15.

Raising education achievement and breaking the cycle of inequality in the United Kingdom

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01-Sep-2008

Anne-Marie Brook

Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them.

India’s growth pattern and obstacles to higher growth

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05-Aug-2008

Sean M. Dougherty, Richard Herd, Thomas Chalaux and Abdul Azeez Erumban

India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. The need for further institutional reforms is urgent, focusing on product and labour market regulations at the central and state levels.