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29-Oct-2010
Gross public social expenditure on average across OECD increased from 16% of GDP in 1980 to 19% in 2007, of which public pensions (7% of GDP) and public health expenditure (6% of GDP) are the largest items. After accounting for the impact of taxation and private benefits, social expenditure (1) amounts to over 30% of GDP at factor cost in France and Belgium and (2) ranges within a few percentage points of each other in Austria, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, the UK and the USA.
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22-Oct-2010
Switzerland has a highly effective labour market policy which combines a relatively generous benefit system and comparatively high expenditures on active market programmes with strong incentives to move into jobs. Given the low overall unemployment, however, the proportion of long term unemployed in labour force surveys is surprisingly high.
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20-Oct-2010
The Seminar was jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. John P. Martin, Director of the Directorate for Employment, labour and Social Affairs et OECD, presents his closing remarks.
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09-Sep-2010
The database on International Migration is LIVE. The tables contain data on foreign and foreign-born population, migration flows, naturalisations and labour market outcomes.
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30-Jul-2010
France 24 TV programme including an interview with Willem Adema, Senior Economist, OECD Social Policy Division.
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07-Jul-2010
A new feature Key Employment Statistics is now available which allows for cross-country comparisons on labour market indicators, outcomes, policies and institutions.
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11-Jun-2010
This paper presents a detailed analysis of changes in both poverty and inequality since the fall of Apartheid, and the potential drivers of such developments. Data show that South Africa’s high aggregate level of income inequality increased between 1993 and 2008. The same is true of inequality within each of South Africa’s four major racial groups. More on www.oecd.org/els/social/inequality.
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29-Apr-2010
Angel Gurría provides an overview of labour market conditions in OECD countries and explains why large fiscal deficits complicate the policy options even further. He also describes what governments should do to promote a job-rich recovery that benefits all workforce groups, including the most vulnerable.
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29-Apr-2010
Speech and video of Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, addressing the role of labour market and social policy in promoting a job-rich recovery at the meeting of the G20 Employment and Labour Ministers.
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16-Apr-2010
Youth unemployment is set to keep rising in the months ahead. With G20 labour ministers meeting in Washington to discuss the jobs crisis, the OECD says more needs to be done to help young people find work and avoid falling into a “lost generation”.
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