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15-Jul-2008
Informal employment is a widespread phenomenon in Romania and a key challenge for the country’s development. A new OECD Development Centre report analyses this problem and highlights several policy options.
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Disadvantaged youth in Britain need better skills and effective job-search help
09-Jul-2008
Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD publication.
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Disadvantaged youth in Britain need better skills and effective job-search help
09-Jul-2008
Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs, and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD report, Jobs for Youth: United Kingdom.
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Labour market discrimination still a big problem in OECD countries
02-Jul-2008
Women are 20% less likely than men to have a paid job in OECD countries and they earn on average 17% less than men, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Employment Outlook.
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26-Jun-2008
A combination of slower growth in spending on healthcare and expanding economies has led to a stabilisation of health spending as a proportion of GDP in many OECD countries, according to OECD Health Data 2008.
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16-Jun-2008
To catch up with more advanced economies, Serbia urgently needs to improve the functioning of its labour market. Despite many reforms, new business growth until now has been far too slow to compensate for job losses elsewhere.
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11-Jun-2008
The recent performance of the youth labour market in Canada is very good compared with most other OECD countries, according to the just-released OECD report on Jobs for Youth: Canada.
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20-May-2008
Highlights the OECD enlargement process and implications for health activities. The May 2008 issue of the newsletter on OECD health-related activities also includes news on health-specific purchasing power parities, the remuneration of doctors, the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic diseases and economic reviews of the health systems of Denmark, Germany and Iceland. Features the upcoming Accra High-Level Forum that will discuss health as a tracer sector to monitor aid effectiveness. Information on key projects by other OECD Directorates.
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10-Apr-2008
In this edition: Launch of Wikigender; Presentation of "Migration and Developing Countries" in Mexico; Working Paper on "Household Structures and Saving"; Upcoming Events and Conferences.
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