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Promoting Adult Learning, 10-11 March 2005 in Malmö, Sweden

28-Feb-2005

International conference co-organised by the OECD and the Swedish Ministry of Education, Research and Culture

Policy brief: Employment Protection: Costs and Benefits of Greater Job Security (pdf, 189Kb,English)

18-Oct-2004

Deregulating labour markets – for example making it easier for firms to hire and fire employees – is at the heart of the employment debate in many OECD countries.

IT Outlook: chapter 6 on "Skills and Employment"

07-Jan-2005

This report forms part of the 2004 OECD Information Technology Outlook. Two new measures of ICT-skilled employment are constructed, one of ICT specialists and one which includes basic and advanced ICT users and ICT specialists, and calculates the share of such employment in the economy and by sector. The link with productivity is examined, and the report also looks at the various ways in which ICT skills needs can be satisfied, namely through education, training, outsourcing and immigration. The role of Internet recruitment is also analysed.

Policy brief: Clocking in and Clocking out: Recent trends in Working Hours (pdf, 107Kb, English)

19-Oct-2004

The amount of time people spend at work is a key element in several economic and social challenges facing industrial countries, notably those associated with population ageing..

OECD Observer: Solving the training divide.

29-Mar-2004

The information society is all very well, but the trouble is ensuring everyone can be trained up for it, especially those who need it most.

Transforming Disability into Ability: Policies to Promote Work and Income Security

19-Feb-2003

How OECD countries can reconcile the twin, but potentially contradictory, goals of disability policy has yet to be resolved.




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