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01-Jun-2004
Find here more information on the OECD Health Project and its component studies: quality of care, equity of access to care, human resources for health care, private health insurance, waiting times, emerging technologies, health system reforms, long-term care. The OECD Health Project commenced in 2001 and culminated with a Meeting of OECD Health Ministers on 13-14 May 2004, when the final report "Towards High-Performing Health Systems" was released. Health Working Papers on Health Reforms, Private Health Insurance, Waiting Times, and Equity of Access to care have been published.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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29-Mar-2004
The information society is all very well, but the trouble is ensuring everyone can be trained up for it, especially those who need it most.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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