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Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 3): New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland

26-Apr-2004

Finding a suitable work/family life balance is a challenge that all parents face. Many parents and children in New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland are happy with their arrangements. However, there are many others who feel seriously constrained in one way or another, and whose personal well-being suffers as a consequence.

Publication "Benefits & Wages (2004)" will be released on 7 December 2004

25-Mar-2004

The most current edition of Benefits and Wages was published in 2002 . The next edition will be released on 7 December 2004, and will include analyses of
- the implications of taxes and social transfers for people living in poverty, and
- the net incomes of employees earning statutory minimum-wages, and
- the financial gains for part-time employees to work longer hours.

Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 2): Austria, Ireland, Japan

16-Mar-2004

Raising children and having a career both rate highly as important life goals for many people. Helping parents to achieve these goals is vital for society: parental care plays a crucial role in child development and parental employment promotes economic prosperity. A failure to assist parents find their preferred work and family balance has implications for both labour supply and family decisions.

Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 1): Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands

16-Mar-2004

Reconciling work and family life involves two key goals for both individuals and society: being able to work, to earn an income while participating in the most important social activity of modern life, and providing the best care and nurturing for one’s own children. These aspirations need not be mutually exclusive.

Reforming Public Pensions - Sharing the Experiences of Transition and OECD Countries

11-Mar-2004

Certain reforms to pension policies have already been undertaken and those proposed inevitably deal with a number of difficult challenges and potential trade-offs: the desirability of providing adequate replacement income and tackling problems of poverty in old age; the imbalance between time spent in work and in retirement; the appropriate mix of different forms of retirement income provisions; the labour market implications of different approaches to financing pensions; and the potential complexities of meeting short-term and long-term policy objectives.
This book addresses these issues through a critical appraisal of the practical lessons of public pension reforms over the past decade in Central and Eastern Europe, and how they compare with reforms in other OECD member countries.
Countries covered include the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, the Russian Federation and Lithuania, as well as Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

Benefits and Wages - OECD Indicators - 2002

08-Mar-2004

Unemployment and related welfare benefits help prevent those without work from falling into poverty but at the same time, reduce the incentive to work; this is one of the main dilemmas of social policy.

Career Interruptions due to Parental Leave: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No.1)

08-Sep-2003

by Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith

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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