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10-Sep-2008
OECD countries should adapt their labour migration policies more closely to likely future demand for workers in all areas of their economies, opening up to lower-skilled workers as well as to those with high skills, according to OECD's International Migration Outlook 2008.
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09-Sep-2008
The International Migration Outlook has been published in September 2008. International migration has jumped up the policy agenda in OECD countries. This annual publication analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries.
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10-Oct-2008
The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.0% in August 2008, 0.2 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.4 percentage point higher than a year earlier.
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29-Aug-2008
Find statistics and indicators on: unemployment, employment, labour force and population of working-age; job duration, working time and earnings and; statutory minimum wages, employment protection legislation, labour market policies and union membership.
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01-Sep-2008
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them.
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29-Aug-2008
The Statistical Annex from the OECD Employment Outlook 2008 , contains data, in PDF format, on standardised unemployment rates in 27 OECD countries; employment/population ratios; activity and unemployment rates, by gender, selected age groups and educational attainment; part-time employment; annual hours worked; long-term unemployment; and public expenditures and participant stocks in labour market programmes.
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27-Aug-2008
On many counts, the youth labour market in Norway is performing very well. The unemployment rate among young people aged 16-24 was 7.3% in 2007, 6 percentage points below the OECD average and the employment rate was almost 12 percentage points above the OECD average.
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18-Aug-2008
All major OECD economies recorded moderate growth in Unit Labour Costs for market services for the first quarter of 2008.
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06-Aug-2008
India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. While some service industries, notably in the information and communications technology sector, have become highly competitive in world markets – yielding considerable gains for employees and investors – manufacturing industries have lagged and improved their performance only recently.
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05-Aug-2008
Over the past decade, labour market outcomes have improved in India, with net employment rising markedly for the economy as a whole. This paper looks at the impact of employment protection legislation and related regulation on the dynamics of employment in the organized sector of the economy, using newly constructed measures of national regulation and state labour reforms.
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Events
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from 10-Nov-2008 to 12-Nov-2008
The objective of this 2.5-day seminar is to improve the functioning of local partnerships. The seminar is aimed at local partnership practitioners and their counterparts in local and national governments. The seminar will focus on three main themes: (i) what makes local partnership building successful?; (ii) what are the key elements of a national support framework for local development partnerships?; and (iii) how to manage and improve performance?
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on 16-Sep-2008
This conference was jointly organised by the OECD LEED Programme and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF). It provided a platform for governments and experts to exchange and learn from good practices in defining, delivering and assessing local development strategies, based on the experience of various cities in Colombia, Latin American and OECD countries.
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from 15-Oct-2008 to 16-Oct-2008
Increasing social inclusion requires a joined-up approach that cuts across policy departments. The public sector should re-think the way it operates, moving from a traditional hierarchical model to one characterised by multi-sectoral partnerships and flexibility in policy delivery. These topics will be discussed at this conference co-organised by the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development and the OECD LEED Programme.
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on 17-Jun-2008
This seminar presented and debated the result of work undertaken by the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme on how best to support the design, implementation and evaluation of local development strategies in Latvia.
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from 11-Jun-2008 to 13-Jun-2008
The objective of this seminar was to improve the capacity of partnerships to design and deliver integrated skills strategies. It focused on three main themes: (i) understanding local skills needs; (ii) building an integrated skills strategy and (iii) assessing the impact: moving from quantitative to qualitative assessment.
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
Should central government leave economic and employment development to local policy makers? Employment ministers from OECD countries, including Finland, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, will address such questions at a conference in Venice, Italy, from 17-19 April 2008.
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on 20-Feb-2008
Migration to OECD countries is accelerating, posing major challenges to the integration of immigrants and their children. At the same time, more and more countries are adopting selective policies to attract highly skilled workers, raising fears of a brain drain from many developing countries.
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
This high-level conference was organised by the Senate and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Italy and the OECD LEED Programme, in collaboration with Italia Lavoro and Isfol. It took stock of 10 years of decentralisation since the initial Venice conference which the LEED Programme organised in 1998 at the request of the Italian government.
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from 01-Jan-2007 to 31-Jul-2007
The review was a joint project between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It was implemented by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development, the USAID Mission to Croatia and USAID’s partner institution World Learning.
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on 10-Dec-2007
Within the framework of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, the Portuguese Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity organised, in partnership with the OECD LEED Programme and the European Commission, a seminar on “Development of Skills, Local Development and Partnerships”.
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