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News & Events
News
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25-Jan-2012
Asia’s pension systems need modernising urgently to deliver secure, sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today’s workers, according to a new OECD report.
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19-Dec-2011
Sweden’s 2008 reform of its labour migration policy, now one of the most open in the OECD, has helped businesses hire foreign workers quickly and cheaply, without hurting conditions for local workers, according to a new OECD report.
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15-Dec-2011
This second edition of Society at a Glance: Asia/Pacific includes comparative data for 36 countries and economies, across five areas, including equity; health; and social cohesion. The report includes a special chapter on how people spend their time in the Asia/Pacific Region, based on data for 13 countries.
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12-Dec-2011
Mental illness is a growing problem in society and is increasingly affecting productivity and well-being in the workplace, according to a new OECD report.
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23-Nov-2011
This working paper No. 124 contains information on gross public social spending 1980-2012 and net (after tax) public and private social expenditure for 2007, a more comprehensive measure of social support. This contains also a manual to the OECD Social Expenditure database (SOCX).
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03-Nov-2011
The OECD and IZA will hold a joint seminar on ‘Job creation in hard times: Learning from the past and new policy directions’. The aim of the seminar is to review the labour market consequences of the recent economic crisis and to share views on key policy lessons.
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19-Oct-2011
The Family database (www.oecd.org/social/family/database) now includes 60 indicators with cross-national information on family outcomes and policies as categorised under 4 broad headings: the structure of families, families and children, the labour market position of families, public policies for families and children, and child outcomes. If you would like to be informed when the database is updated regularly, please click here.
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26-Sep-2011
As the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers meet today, we, the Heads of the International Labour Organization and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, wish to express our concern over the seriousness of the jobs crisis. 200 million people are out of work worldwide, close to the peak recorded at the depth of the Great Recession.
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13-Jul-2011
The Employment, Migration and Social Policy Newsletter will be published quarterly and focus on new and ongoing projects, recent publications and upcoming events. It will be updated regularly and is accessible on line.
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12-Jul-2011
International migration fell in 2009, reflecting lower demand for workers in OECD countries for the second consecutive year after a decade of growth, according to a new OECD report. The 2011 International Migration Outlook says that migration into OECD countries fell by about 7% in 2009 to 4.3 million people, down from just over 4.5 million in 2008. Recent national data suggest migration numbers fell further in 2010.
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Events
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from 14-Nov-2011 to 15-Nov-2011
The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading scholars from Europe as well as from North America whose research focuses on labour activation in its various forms.
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from 14-Oct-2010 to 15-Oct-2010
A Seminar jointly organised by the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD and the European Commission under the Belgian presidency of the European Union took place in Brussels on the 14 and 15 October 2010.
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from 07-Oct-2010 to 08-Oct-2010
Governments want to give their citizens the best possible healthcare but they also need to control public spending. When health ministers from OECD countries meet on 7-8 October in Paris, they will discuss how to meet urgent short-term fiscal concerns without sacrificing the long-term quality and availability of health care.
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from 07-Oct-2010 to 08-Oct-2010
Health Ministers will meet at the OECD on 7-8 October 2010 to discuss health priorities following the economic crisis. They will discuss how to provide better health at a lower cost and how spending money on preventing unhealthy lifestyles can be a better use of health funds than dealing with the resulting diseases.
Prior to the Ministerial a Forum on quality of care will be held and will examine how quality affects the efficiency of health systems.
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from 20-Sep-2010 to 21-Sep-2010
A High Level Policy Forum on Jobs for Youth: Addressing Policy Challenges in OECD Countries, jointly organised by the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and the OECD, discussed what decisive actions governments should take to improve job prospects for young people.
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from 08-Feb-2010 to 09-Feb-2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the individual and household levels. This is becoming starkly evident following the onset of the current severe global economic downturn. Identification of appropriate policy responses that aim at supporting vulnerable groups are hampered by how little is known about the likely distribution of changes in (un)employment and market income...
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from 28-Sep-2009 to 29-Sep-2009
OECD employment and labour ministers will meet on 28-29 September to discuss how labour market and social policies can best help workers and low-income households weather the storm of the current jobs crisis. The Ministerial meeting will be preceded by a Policy Forum on the morning of 28 September. The Forum will provide an opportunity for Ministers to share their views on these important issues with the social partners, researchers, representatives of civil society and journalists.
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During the first-ever OECD High-Level Policy Forum on Migration (Paris, 29-30 June 2009), ministers and senior officials in charge of migration and integration issues discussed the impact of the current economic crisis on international migration, management of labour migration movements and labour market integration of immigrants and their children.
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