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04-Sep-2006
The third issue of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Newsletter is now available. It focuses on the restated Jobs Strategy and on the challenge of increasing employment in OECD countries, the topic of a recent high-level policy forum. It also reports on the first reviews of disability policies, and presents a new project to measure adult skills.
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Measures of Material Deprivation in OECD Countries (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 37)
04-Aug-2006
This paper identifies suitable survey questions that might be used in comparative analysis of the extent of material deprivation in OECD countries, and presents simple summary measures of its prevalence.
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20-Jun-2006
Recent pension reforms in OECD countries have a number of common themes. First, pension eligibility conditions have been tightened. Second, the indexation of pensions in payment has become less generous. Third, some pension schemes link benefit levels to changes in life expectancy. Finally, a number of countries have introduced defined-contribution pensions: privately managed schemes where the pension benefit depends on contributions and investment returns.
This paper by P.Whiteford and E.Whitehouse was published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
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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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