News & Events

Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 1): Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands

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.

Reforming Public Pensions - Sharing the Experiences of Transition and OECD Countries

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.

Benefits and Wages - OECD Indicators - 2002

08-Mar-2004

Unemployment and related welfare benefits help prevent those without work from falling into poverty but at the same time, reduce the incentive to work; this is one of the main dilemmas of social policy.

Conference on Women Entrepreneurs and Social Innovation, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 9-10 December 2003

07-Jan-2004

This international workshop was hosted by the Slovenian government, and organised by the LEED Programme in collaboration with the CEI-EBRD, the Municipality of Ljubljana, the Association ZAVOD M.E.T.A. and the Slovenian Ministry of Economy. To know more about the speakers and their expertise please click here. For more information, please contact Antonella.Noya@oecd.org

Conference on From Co-operative to Social Enterprise, Trento, Italy, 19-20 December 2003

This international seminar, is jointly promoted by ISSAN and the EMES Network, in partnership with the LEED Programme. It aims at exploring the evolution of the co-operative form from a mutuality tradition towards a new model with a large participation, by focusing on some national co-operative experiences.

Career Interruptions due to Parental Leave: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No.1)

08-Sep-2003

by Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith

Entrepreneurship and Local Development in Distressed Urban Areas, Rome, Italy, 7-8 October 2003

This conference is jointly organised by the LEED Programme and  the City of Rome, in the framework of the LEED Forum on Social Innovation and the LEED Forum on Cities and Regions. For more information, please contact: Antonella.Noya@oecd.org or Jonathan.Potter@oecd.org

OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems - Korea

02-May-2003

How can the performance of the Korean health care system be improved? How have the July 2000 health sector reforms affected performance?

Transforming Disability into Ability: Policies to Promote Work and Income Security

19-Feb-2003

How OECD countries can reconcile the twin, but potentially contradictory, goals of disability policy has yet to be resolved.