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03-Jun-2008
The 2008 Finland Country Survey finds that despite Finland’s excellent compulsory education system, problems remain at the tertiary level, especially in the transition from upper secondary school to tertiary education. Finland also has very long tertiary study times. The Survey makes recommendations on how the tertiary entrance backlog might be addressed and how incentives might be fine-tuned so as to encourage students to complete their tertiary education as efficiently as possible.
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03-Jun-2008
The 2008 Finland Country Survey finds that while Finland has recorded strong employment growth over the past decade, significant challenges loom. As the population ages additional policies need to be put in place to boost labour market participation including by encouraging later retirement, and reactivating older displaced workers and those on sickness and disability benefits.
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31-Jan-2008
About two-thirds of Dutch female workers opt for part-time jobs, bringing down the country’s average working time to one of the lowest levels in the OECD. Thus, increasing working hours depends on reconciling work and family responsibilities.
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31-Jan-2008
Poor economic integration and weak labour market performance of immigrants have induced policy changes aimed at making immigration policy more selective. Nevertheless, their labour market performance remains poor, pointing the need for immigration policy better reflect labour market requirements.
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08-Feb-2007
This paper presents composite indicators of the institutional characteristics of primary and lower secondary educational systems for 26 OECD countries collated from a questionnaire. Economics Department working paper 543 by Frédéric Gonand, Isabelle Joumard and Robert Price.
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How deep is the impact of the recent oil and credit shocks on the productive potential of OECD economies?
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