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20-Jan-2006
Presentation at the University of Antwerp on 16 January 2006 of a paper on childcare policies which play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks.
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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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18-Nov-2005
To sustain a high rate of GDP growth over the medium term, Chile needs to improve the functioning of its labour market. Chapter 5 of the "Economic Survey of Chile 2005" discusses options for reform in this area. The 2003 Survey found that Chile had greater potential for increasing labour supply than most OECD economies, having a relatively young population and low employment/population ratios for women and youths.
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16-Nov-2005
One of the key institutional outcomes of China’s economic reforms has been to create a new role for employers that is separate from the state, and allows enterprises to concentrate on their business. To protect workers, the government has set up public institutions for many social and administrative functions that until recently pertained to work units (danwei), or did not exist. This paper focuses on three such functions for which the 1994 Labour Law makes the government responsible: employment services, labour inspection and social insurance.
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08-Nov-2005
This working paper No. 29 contains information on net (after tax) public and private social expenditure for 2001, a more comprehensive measure of social support. After accounting for the impact of taxation, social expenditure to GDP ratios appear similar in Australia, Denmark, United Kingdom and the United States; they are highest in France, Germany and Sweden.
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OECD opens in Seoul, Korea, its Regional Centre on Health & Social Policy
23-Sep-2005
The purpose of the Centre, which opened on 9 September in Seoul, is to promote policy dialogue between OECD and non-member economies and to provide capacity-building assistance to the non-OECD Asian economies by information-sharing and policy analysis.
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09-Sep-2005
This report tries to explain observed changes in fertility rates across OECD countries, with an emphasis on socio-economic considerations. It aims to extend the understanding of fertility-related behaviours in different ways: by explaining recent developments in fertility rates and their relationships to other social drivers; by developing and testing new and expanded models to explain the cross-country variation in fertility rates due to labour markets, social and fiscal policies, and individual characteristics.
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22-Jul-2005
Is there reason to hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more responsive to consumer preferences than those provided by a single monopoly public sector provider. Drawing on examples...
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16-Jun-2005
The first part of this testimony puts the United States’ pension system in an international context. The second part looks at structural pension reforms that have introduced some kind of mandatory ‘individual accounts’ as a substitute for all or part of public, earnings-related pensions...
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01-Mar-2005
"Extending Opportunities: How active social policy can benefit us all ?" Social ministers from OECD countries will meet in Paris on 31 March – 1 April, 2005 to discuss how social policies can help individuals and families achieve their potential and support economic growth.
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