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07-Nov-2006
Norway, Poland and Switzerland should do more to reduce the number of people claiming sickness benefits and help more disabled people to get jobs, according to a new OECD report.
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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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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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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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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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