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18-Dec-2007
A new OECD report analyses the sickness and disability policies in Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom. It recommends steps governments should take to reduce the number of people claiming sickness and disability benefits and help beneficiaries back into the labour market.
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13-Dec-2007
Faced with labour shortages and pressures on pension funding due to ageing populations, one in three OECD countries has cut unemployment benefits in the last six years with a view to encouraging unemployed people to find jobs, according to a new OECD report.
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13-Dec-2007
Benefits and Wages 2007, the fifth issue of a series of publications previously entitled Benefit Systems and Work Incentives, is now available. This volume provides results for 2005 as well as comparisons with earlier years. All main indicators shown in previous editions are updated accordingly.
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29-Nov-2007
Getting family-friendly policies right will help reduce poverty, promote child development, enhance equity between men and women and stem the fall in birth-rates, according to a new OECD report. Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life compares the different approaches that the 30 OECD countries take to help parents balance their work and family commitments.
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19-Nov-2007
The compendium is part of the project on "Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany"carried out by the OECD and the Federal Ministry of Housing, Land, Construction, Transport and Urban Affairs. The compendium is built of several themes of relevance to local entrepreneurship development in East Germany. It brings together recommendations, International learning models and good practice in East Germany.
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10-Oct-2007
Continuous growth in life expectancy, often at a more rapid rate than forecast, creates financial challenges for retirement-income systems. Most countries have responded with pension reforms to contain rising pension costs. Around two-thirds of reforms will automatically link future pensions to changes in life expectancy.
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13-Aug-2007
In their quest for legitimacy, democratic regimes find themselves having to balance two values that can be in some tension: fair and non-politically partisan public service delivery and, subject to the law, the responsiveness of public servants to the policies of the current executive. This paper depicts the way in which different countries have developed institutional arrangements which balance these two concerns, to avoid the extremes of a self-serving public service immune to political leadership, or an over-politicised public service hostage to patronage and serving partisan interests.
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25-Sep-2007
The review of human resource management in Belgium's governments is the first country review of its kind to be carried out by the OECD. It provides a detailed diagnosis and solutions for improving the management of government employees in the Brussels-Capital Region, Federal Government, Flemish Government, French Community and Wallon Region. The report compares the policies and practices of Belgium with those in other OECD countries, as well as those across different governments in Belgium.
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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.
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