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13-Jun-2006
OECD countries urgently need to get more people into paid employment if they want to boost living standards and keep welfare systems afloat. They can do this by moving away from policies that discourage people from working and companies from hiring and by doing more to raise workers’ skills.
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12-Jun-2006
This project aims to follow up on the OECD study Transforming Disability into Ability (published in early 2003) and will examine in more depth national policies to manage and reduce the inflow into sickness and disability benefit programmes and to assist those beneficiaries who want to reintegrate into the labour market. The objective is to reach a better understanding of the mechanisms and policies that lead a person with a health problem or a disability to withdraw from the labour market,
temporarily or permanently.
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04-Apr-2006
The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) and the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate organised a seminar on "Activation Strategies and Performance of Employment Services", with particular consideration of policies in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The purpose of the seminar was to give both Dutch and international experts, practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to learn about the different aspects of employment and reintegration services in these three countries.
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13-Feb-2006
In an era of rapid population ageing, many employment and social policies, practices and attitudes that discourage work at an older age have passed their sell-by date and need to be overhauled. This publication makes an important contribution to establishing a new agenda of age-friendly employment policies and practices. It draws out the main lessons that have emerged from the 21 country reviews which have been published separately under the OECD’s series on “Ageing and Employment Policies/Vieillissement et politiques de l’emploi”.
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17-Jan-2006
The second issue of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Newsletter is now available. It focuses on the challenge of encouraging people to work longer as life expectancy increases, the topic of a recent high-level policy forum in Brussels.
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Launch of a new thematic review
31-Aug-2005
A new thematic review on "Reforming Sickness and Disability Policies to Improve Work Incentives" has been launched. Its goal is to reach a better understanding of the mechanisms and policies that lead a person with a health problem to withdraw from the labour market. It examines national policies to control and reduce the inflow into sickness and disability benefit programmes, and to assist those beneficiaries who want to reintegrate the labour market. The first round of the review, covering Norway, Poland and Switzerland, has started in June 2005.
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EC-OECD Seminar on Human Capital and Labour Market Performance: Evidence and Policy Challenges
26-May-2005
There is increasing recognition of the importance of human capital for economic growth and labour market performance. To adapt to rapid technological change, workers’ skills and competencies need to be upgraded continuously. More importantly, investing in human capital throughout the career is essential in the face of population ageing. Indeed, this is one way of making it possible for workers to lengthen their working lives, in line with improvements in longevity. Yet, there is little agreement on the nature of the policies that will upgrade workers’ skills effectively.
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18-Mar-2005
Over the past decade, there has been heated debate on the socio-economic consequences of population ageing. The trends are clear. People are living longer and longevity will continue to improve in coming decades, while fertility has declined and is likely to remain below reproduction rates in the predictable future. As a result, the number of elderly people will rise significantly relatively to the number of people of working age.
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28-Feb-2005
International conference co-organised by the OECD and the Swedish Ministry of Education, Research and Culture
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