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News & Events
News
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21-Jul-2009
A new feature Key Employment Statistics is now available which allows for country-country comparisons on labour market indicators, outcomes, policies and institutions.
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20-Jul-2009
The OECD Employment Outlook will be released during the OECD Employment and Labour Ministerial meeting on the 28-29 September 2009. Prior to the launch, information regarding the 2009 edition can be found on the Employment Outlook homepage. This page includes a new feature on Key Employment Statistics which allows cross-country comparisons on labour market indicators, outcomes, policies and institutions.
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10-Jul-2009
Issue 7 of Health Update looks at the question of health spending in the current economic crisis. It also features other key health-related projects throughout the OECD (including information and communication technology, healthy ageing, obesity and long term care) and the recent release of OECD Health Data 2009.
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01-Jul-2009
The number of doctors per capita increased 2% per year on average across OECD countries between 1990 and 2007, but in some countries the trend is reversing. These are some of the findings from OECD Health Data 2009, the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across the 30 OECD countries.
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30-Jun-2009
Since 30 June 2009, the Family database (www.oecd.org/els/social/family/database) includes 52 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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Events
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from 29-Mar-2007 to 05-Apr-2007
Is there a perfect pension scheme? Do people understand their pension systems?
A live online question and answer session on the issue of pension reform took place on Thursday 5 April.
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from 30-Oct-2006 to 31-Oct-2006
As a follow-up to the High-level forum of Employment and Labour Ministers in Toronto in June 2006 , which welcomed the restated Jobs Strategy as a good basis for formulating policy, a Forum took place in Tokyo on 30-31 October 2006. Its purpose was to invite policy makers mainly from countries in the Asia-Pacific region to discuss:
i) the challenges of implementing the restated Jobs Strategy in OECD countries in the region; and
ii) the relevance of the restated Jobs Strategy for participating non-OECD countries
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from 16-Nov-2006 to 17-Nov-2006
A conference, organised by the French Ministry of Labour in partnership with OECD, will examine the relevance of the Restated OECD Jobs Strategy for France. It took place in Paris on 16-17 November 2006. Speech made by the Secretary-General at this conference .
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from 06-Mar-2003 to 07-Mar-2003
The OECD and the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research organised on 6 and 7 March 2003 a conference to discuss disability policies for the working-age population. The conference addressed key problems in disability policy, and discussed OECD recommendations on how to tackle them as outlined in the forthcoming publication "Transforming Disability into Ability". The main policy recommendations from the publication formed the basis for the thematic sessions.
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from 17-Oct-2005 to 18-Oct-2005
The purpose of this Forum was to present and discuss the main lessons and issues that have emerged from the thematic review on policies to improve labour market prospects for older workers. For more information on the Forum, please refer to www.oecd.org/olderworkersforum
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OECD Employment Outlook 2009
OECD Labour and Employment Ministerial: Tackling the Jobs Crisis
The most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries
