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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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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 report, Jobs for Youth: United Kingdom.
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02-Jul-2008
Women are 20% less likely than men to have a paid job in OECD countries and they earn on average 17% less than men, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Employment Outlook.
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16-Jun-2008
To catch up with more advanced economies, Serbia urgently needs to improve the functioning of its labour market. Despite many reforms, new business growth until now has been far too slow to compensate for job losses elsewhere.
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11-Jun-2008
The recent performance of the youth labour market in Canada is very good compared with most other OECD countries, according to the just-released OECD report on Jobs for Youth: Canada.
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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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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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