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Measures of Material Deprivation in OECD Countries (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 37)
04-Aug-2006
This paper identifies suitable survey questions that might be used in comparative analysis of the extent of material deprivation in OECD countries, and presents simple summary measures of its prevalence.
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26-Jun-2006
Health spending continues to rise in OECD countries and, if current trends continue, governments will need to raise taxes, cut spending in other areas or make people pay more out of their own pockets in order to maintain their existing healthcare systems, new OECD data indicate.
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20-Jun-2006
Recent pension reforms in OECD countries have a number of common themes. First, pension eligibility conditions have been tightened. Second, the indexation of pensions in payment has become less generous. Third, some pension schemes link benefit levels to changes in life expectancy. Finally, a number of countries have introduced defined-contribution pensions: privately managed schemes where the pension benefit depends on contributions and investment returns.
This paper by P.Whiteford and E.Whitehouse was published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
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13-Jun-2006
OECD countries urgently need to get more people into paid employment if they want to boost living standards and keep welfare systems afloat. They can do this by moving away from policies that discourage people from working and companies from hiring and by doing more to raise workers’ skills.
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12-Jun-2006
This project aims to follow up on the OECD study Transforming Disability into Ability (published in early 2003) and will examine in more depth national policies to manage and reduce the inflow into sickness and disability benefit programmes and to assist those beneficiaries who want to reintegrate into the labour market. The objective is to reach a better understanding of the mechanisms and policies that lead a person with a health problem or a disability to withdraw from the labour market,
temporarily or permanently.
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08-Jun-2006
Between 3 and 3.5 million immigrants, including those already living in their new country on a temporary basis, became official long-term residents in OECD countries in 2004, according to International Migration Outlook, the latest edition of the OECD’s annual report on migration movements and policies.
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OECD education systems leave many immigrant children floundering, report shows
16-May-2006
Many developed countries are failing to help children of immigrant families integrate into society through education. According to a new OECD study, immigrant children in some OECD countries lag more than two years behind their native counterparts in school performance, and a sizeable gap remains often even after accounting for socio-economic factors.
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21-Apr-2006
The expected outputs of this project include the preparation of a statistical compendium on the stock of health worker immigrants in OECD countries by detailed country of birth and occupation, a document on current trends and policies on the international mobility of health professionals, and a document based on an in-depth analysis of health workforce policies and trends and migration inter-actions in selected OECD countries (case studies).
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04-Apr-2006
The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) and the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate organised a seminar on "Activation Strategies and Performance of Employment Services", with particular consideration of policies in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The purpose of the seminar was to give both Dutch and international experts, practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to learn about the different aspects of employment and reintegration services in these three countries.
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