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20-Feb-2008
New Zealand should encourage young people to stay in school past the age of 16 in order to boost their chances of finding a job, according to a new OECD report.
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15-Feb-2008
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries, and an apparent paradox that needs explaining. Why is it that average health status is improving, yet more and more people of working age end up out of the workforce relying on long-term sickness and disability benefits?
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14-Feb-2008
For decades, social policy interventions were limited to assist and insure against a limited number of well-defined risks. However, the social order based on standard employment relations, the male breadwinner model and social security in defined but exceptional circumstances, has changed.
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23-Jan-2008
The Netherlands has a dynamic youth labour market but helping the hard core of disadvantaged young people find jobs will require comprehensive action on a range of fronts, according to a new OECD report.
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20-Dec-2007
Labour market outcomes for young people in Korea deteriorated in the aftermath of the financial crisis of the late 1990s. Though the government has introduced a wide range of measures since the early 2000s, much remains to be done to restore the dynamism of the youth labour market, according to a new OECD report.
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20-Dec-2007
Findings of the report were presented to the Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation, Mr. Bert Koenders. The report was also introduced to German Technical Co-operation (GTZ), in the framework of a conference on “Mobility for Local and Regional Labour Markets”.
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18-Dec-2007
A new OECD report analyses the sickness and disability policies in Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom. It recommends steps governments should take to reduce the number of people claiming sickness and disability benefits and help beneficiaries back into the labour market.
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18-Dec-2007
International Migrants Days, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in 1990, reminds the international community of the importance of guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms to migrants. As highlighted by the work of the OECD Development Centre, migrants are becoming an increasingly central aspect of globalisation, with important effects on the development processes in sending countries.
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17-Dec-2007
This report (Working Paper 30) attempts to assess whether--and to what degree--better care coordination can improve health system performance in terms of quality and cost-efficiency. See also the annex to this paper.
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13-Dec-2007
Faced with labour shortages and pressures on pension funding due to ageing populations, one in three OECD countries has cut unemployment benefits in the last six years with a view to encouraging unemployed people to find jobs, according to a new OECD report.
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