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Fourth issue of Health Update

08-Nov-2007

OECD Deputy Secretary-General De Geus highlights the growing importance of health for OECD countries. The November 2007 issue of the newsletter on OECD health-related activities also includes news on health care quality indicators, health workforce migration, medicines for neglected diseases, and using the health sector to monitor aid effectiveness.

Internet update for OECD Health Data 2007 released

26-Oct-2007

The Internet update for OECD Health Data 2007 has been released. Go to the OECD Health Data Update page to download the file and access more than 3,500 data updates, along with a fully revised hypertext for Definitions, Sources and Methods.

Life-expectancy links: The quiet revolution in pension policy (Media Briefing)

10-Oct-2007

Continuous growth in life expectancy, often at a more rapid rate than forecast, creates financial challenges for retirement-income systems. Most countries have responded with pension reforms to contain rising pension costs. Around two-thirds of reforms will automatically link future pensions to changes in life expectancy. 

Health Care Quality Indicators Project - 2006 data collection update report: A new OECD Health Working Paper

05-Oct-2007

The OECD has released an OECD Health Working Paper (No. 29) from the Health Care Quality Indicators Project. This report is an update to the OECD Health Working Paper No. 22, and reports on the results of a second round of data collection.

OECD Employment Outlook 2007

04-Sep-2007

The 2007 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook has been released in June. It addresses labour markets in the BRICs; the impact of labour market policies on productivity; the vulnerability of workers in the global economy; the financing of social protection; anf the way countries activate the unemployed.

OUR ANNUAL REPORT: The International Migration Outlook

04-Sep-2007

The International Migration Outlook is published every year in June. The subject of migration has jumped up the policy agenda in OECD countries and this annual publication analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries.

OECD Labour Force Statistics: 1985-2005 (2006 Edition)

02-Aug-2007

This annual publication provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment. It also contains participation and unemployment rates by gender and detailed age groups as well as comparative tables for the main components of the labour force.

Data on Labour Markets in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China): five excel tables

02-Aug-2007

How are wage inequalities and poverty evolving? How quickly is the human capital available in the BRICs catching up with the OECD?

OECD Employment Outlook 2008 - Statistical Annex

02-Aug-2007

The Statistical Annex from the OECD Employment Outlook 2008  , contains data, in PDF format, on standardised unemployment rates in 27 OECD countries; employment/population ratios; activity and unemployment rates, by gender, selected age groups and educational attainment; part-time employment; annual hours worked; long-term unemployment; and public expenditures and participant stocks in labour market programmes.




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