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04-May-2007
The workshop streamlined ongoing discussions by bringing together key stakeholders to exchange their views and experiences in measuring gender equality. Participants included experts from international organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes as well as statistical offices. In addition to a presentation of existing data compilations, focus was put on methodological issues, questions of data aggregation and indicator building, as well as options for improved data collection and quality.
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02-May-2007
The ongoing thematic review on sickness and disability policies suggests that the way countries are dealing with people with a partially-reduced work capacity is changing. The purpose of this paper is to document these policy initiatives.
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02-May-2007
D’après l’examen thématique en cours des politiques de maladie et invalidité, les solutions apportées en cas de capacité de travail partiellement réduite sont en train d’évoluer. Ce document passe en revue ces nouvelles initiatives.
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06-Apr-2007
The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base (GID) represents a new tool for researchers and policy makers to determine and analyse obstacles to women’s economic development. It covers a total of 161 countries and comprises an array of 60 indicators on gender discrimination.
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01-Mar-2007
Despite the fact that today’s young cohorts are smaller in number and better educated than their older counterparts, high youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many OECD countries. The paper highlights the contrasting trends in youth labour market performance over the past decade using a wide range of indicators. It also presents new evidence on i) the length of transitions from school to work; and ii) the degree to which temporary jobs serve as either traps for young people or stepping-stones to good careers.
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23-Feb-2007
The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and private social expenditure, from 1980 to 2003 for 30 OECD countries. This version also includes for the first time estimates of net total social spending for 2003 for 24 OECD countries.
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23-Feb-2007
The last edition of Society at a Glance has been published in February 2007. This is a compendium of data comparable over time and across countries on issues ranging from income and employment to life expectancy and fertility, public spending on social welfare and health and indicators of ‘life satisfaction’.
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Belgium “could do better” on school-to-work transition, says the OECD
16-Feb-2007
According to a new report by the OECD, Belgium should do more to help young people get their working life off to a good start. The unemployment rate for 15 to 24 year olds was about 20 per cent in 2005, i.e. almost identical to 10 years ago and around seven percentage points higher than the OECD average.
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16-Feb-2007
OECD has launched a new project on Jobs for Youth in 15 countries, the first one being Belgium. Each report contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work. It also provides a set of policy recommendations for further action by the public authorities and social partners.
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