25-June-2014
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Country notes highlight some key findings from TALIS 2013 for individual countries and economies
6-May-2014
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30-April-2014
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1-April-2014
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Note summarising the performance of 15-year-olds in Japan in the PISA 2012 assessment of problem solving.
18-March-2014
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This note presents key findings for Japan from Society at a Glance 2014 - OECD Social indicators. This 2014 publication also provides a special chapter on: the crisis and its aftermath: a “stress test” for societies and for social policies.
26-February-2014
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The productivity level in services relative to manufacturing is particularly low in Japan, dragging down economy-wide labour productivity, which is significantly below the average of the upper-half of OECD countries.
21-February-2014
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The Japanese economy is recovering after having suffered severe shocks from the 2008 financial and economic crisis and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
26-November-2013
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The effective age of labour market exit in Japan is one of the highest in OECD. Retirement-income adequacy may be an issue for future cohorts of retirees...
21-November-2013
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Japan has good health outcomes and has rapidly increased its spending on health care in recent years. It now needs to focus on improving efficiency of its health system in order to continue delivering high-quality care while containing costs, according to a new OECD report.