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15-Feb-2008
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries, and an apparent paradox that needs explaining. Why is it that average health status is improving, yet more and more people of working age end up out of the workforce relying on long-term sickness and disability benefits?
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23-Jan-2008
The Netherlands has a dynamic youth labour market but helping the hard core of disadvantaged young people find jobs will require comprehensive action on a range of fronts, according to a new OECD report.
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20-Dec-2007
Labour market outcomes for young people in Korea deteriorated in the aftermath of the financial crisis of the late 1990s. Though the government has introduced a wide range of measures since the early 2000s, much remains to be done to restore the dynamism of the youth labour market, according to a new OECD report.
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18-Dec-2007
A new OECD report analyses the sickness and disability policies in Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom. It recommends steps governments should take to reduce the number of people claiming sickness and disability benefits and help beneficiaries back into the labour market.
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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?
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02-Aug-2007
Populations are ageing: these pyramids show populations by age group, gender, in 2000 and 2050, in percentage of total population in each group, for all OECD countries.
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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.
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02-Aug-2007
List of official employment policy related websites of the OECD member countries.
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24-Jul-2007
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This publication is the first in a series of three comparative reports on sickness and disability policies in selected OECD countries.
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05-Jul-2007
The OECD Employment Outlook is released every year in June. It provides in-depth analysis of various labour market issues. In 2007: 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; and the way countries activate the unemployed.
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