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29-Aug-2008
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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Disability Seminar Vol III - Ireland, June 2008
27-Jul-2008
June 2008: Seminar on Disability in Dublin, Ireland, jointly organised by the OECD and the Irish Department of Social and Family Affairs, to discuss the main findings of Vol. 3.
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09-Jul-2008
Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD publication.
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20-Feb-2008
New Zealand should encourage young people to stay in school past the age of 16 in order to boost their chances of finding a job, according to a new OECD report.
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Events
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on 28-Mar-2007
Brazil, China and India represent a growing share of world GDP. They have also become more open to international trade and investment, thus creating new growth opportunities for OECD countries. It is therefore crucial that Brazil, China and India maintain a sustainable growth path, which depends to some extent on well-functioning labour markets. The purpose of the informal seminar was to gather expert views on labour market developments in Brazil, China and India.
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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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