News & Events

News

Health Care Quality Indicators Project - 2006 data collection update report: A new OECD Health Working Paper

05-Oct-2007

The OECD has released an OECD Health Working Paper (No. 29) from the Health Care Quality Indicators Project. This report is an update to the OECD Health Working Paper No. 22, and reports on the results of a second round of data collection.

New reports available for the OECD project on valuation of environment-related health impacts for children (VERHI)

20-Sep-2007

Leading academics in the valuation field have prepared methodological reports to help guide the VERHI research consortium in further development of the project. To download pdf formats of these documents, please visit  www.oecd.org/env/social/envhealth/verhi

Migration: New Policies for Greater Gains

13-Sep-2007

Migration can benefit all parties involved: migrant-sending countries, migrant-receiving countries and the migrants themselves; says the OECD Development Centre in a report on Gaining from Migration: Towards a New Mobility System.

OECD Podcast: Gender Equality

12-Sep-2007

Gender equality is an essential human right and crucial to economic development. The OECD Development Centre's Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base  (GID-DB) is full of fascinating facts about gender equality and inequality. Denis Drechsler explains the main features and findings of this statistical tool.

Just released: Gaining from Migration - Towards a New Mobility System

06-Sep-2007

How can we all gain from migration? This report is a summary of recommendations that provide a road map towards a new global mobility system. New ideas are offered for policies related to labour markets, integration, development co-operation and the engagement of diasporas.

OECD Employment Outlook 2007

04-Sep-2007

The 2007 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook has been released in June. It addresses labour markets in the BRICs; the impact of labour market policies on productivity; the vulnerability of workers in the global economy; the financing of social protection; anf the way countries activate the unemployed.

The Development Centre and Swivel Team Up to Promote Unique Gender Data

21-Aug-2007

By making its innovative Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base available on Swivel.com, the OECD Development Centre provides easy access to unique data about an emerging topic.

Data on Labour Markets in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China): five excel tables

02-Aug-2007

How are wage inequalities and poverty evolving? How quickly is the human capital available in the BRICs catching up with the OECD?

OECD population pyramids in 2000 and 2050

02-Aug-2007

Populations are ageing: these pyramids show populations by age group, gender, in 2000 and 2050, in percentage of total population in each group, for all OECD countries.

OECD Labour Force Statistics: 1985-2005 (2006 Edition)

02-Aug-2007

This annual publication provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment. It also contains participation and unemployment rates by gender and detailed age groups as well as comparative tables for the main components of the labour force.




Top of page

Editor's choice

Doing Better for Children

Subscribe to the Social and Welfare Issues RSS feed

A free and easy way to receive the latest news on Social and Welfare Issues