Pensions in Asia/Pacific - Ageing Asia must face its pension problems

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07-Jan-2009

Edward Whitehouse

Many of Asia's retirement-income systems are ill prepared for the rapid population ageing that will occur over the next two decades.

Asian countries should reform their pension systems, says OECD

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07-Jan-2009

Many Asian countries will need to reform their pension systems in order to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today’s workers, according to a new OECD report.

Japan could do more to help young people find stable jobs

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18-Dec-2008

Young people in Japan are finding it increasingly hard to get stable jobs and the Japanese authorities should expand vocational training schemes and increase social security coverage for young non-regular workers in order to help them.

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: December 2008

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08-Dec-2008

The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.2% in October 2008, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.6 percentage point higher than a year earlier.

OECD says governments must continue reforms of disability systems

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20-Nov-2008

OECD governments should continue reforming their sickness and disability systems and help people with health problems to retain their jobs or find new ones, according to a new OECD report.

Helping immigrants and their children find work should be a priority, says OECD

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17-Nov-2008

Immigrants and their children in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal are more likely to be unemployed or doing a job for which they are overqualified than people born in that country, according to a new OECD report.

OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: November 2008

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12-Nov-2008

All of the major seven OECD economies, except the United States, recorded flat or lower growth in unit labour costs in industry in the second quarter of 2008.

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: November 2008

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10-Nov-2008

The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.0% in September 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.4 percentage point higher than a year earlier.

Media brief - Are we growing unequal?

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21-Oct-2008

The gap between rich and poor in most OECD countries has widened over the past two decades. This risks leaving more people behind in an ever-changing world economy.

Income inequality and poverty rising in most OECD countries

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21-Oct-2008

Income gaps have widened over the past two decades in most OECD countries. In today’s changing world economy, that means ever more people at risk of being left behind. Governments need not sit on the sidelines: they should respond to income inequality with policies that help lift people up.