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Social Policies, Family Types and Child Outcomes in Selected OECD Countries (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No.6)

26-May-2004

by Sheila B. Kamerman, Michelle Neuman, Jane Waldfogel and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Child development and child well-being are major concerns in many OECD countries and are the subject of ongoing work at the OECD. These concerns have led to a search for policies to offset poverty, deprivation, vulnerability, and the risk factors that can trigger a lifelong cycle of disadvantage.

Anticipating population ageing - challenges & responses (pdf, 256kb)

03-May-2004

How does the United States compare with other countries?
Presentation by Peter Whiteford, 27 April 2004, 2004 Global Conference of the Human Resource Planning Society, Phoenix, Arizona

Bébés et Employeurs - Comment réconcilier travail et vie de famille (Vol. 3): Nouvelle Zélande, Portugal, Suisse

26-Apr-2004

Établir un équilibre convenable entre vie familiale et vie professionnelle est un enjeu auquel tous les parents sont confrontés. Bon nombre de parents et d’enfants, en Nouvelle-Zélande, au Portugal et en Suisse, sont satisfaits de leur organisation. Beaucoup d’autres, toutefois, ont de grandes difficultés à assumer l’une ou l’autre de ces responsabilités, et leur bien-être personnel s’en ressent. Certaines personnes voudraient avoir des enfants, mais ne voient pas comment concilier cette responsabilité et leur situation professionnelle.

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.

Expert Meeting: Ex Post Evaluation of Regulatory Policies

15-Mar-2004

Expert Meeting: Ex Post Evaluation of Regulatory Policies

22 September 2003, Paris, France

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.