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News & Events
News
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18-Dec-2008
Young people in Japan are finding it increasingly hard to get permanent jobs and the Japanese authorities should expand vocational training schemes and increase social security coverage for young non-regular workers in order to help them.
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11-Dec-2008
This book takes stock of the main changes in the management of public services across OECD countries and aims to help governments and the public better understand some of the complex issues. It summarises the findings of the OECD Public Employment and Management working party over the past 15 years.
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10-Dec-2008
The OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate has launched in September 2008 a series of seminars open to both external and internal speakers. It is intended to be an informal forum for discussion of policy-oriented empirical research work among policy-makers, academics and OECD staff.
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25-Nov-2008
The OECD area economy has entered recession and labour market conditions are rapidly deteriorating in many countries, according to the latest issue of the OECD Economic Outlook (No. 84). OECD projections indicate that the average unemployment rate in the OECD area may reach 6.3% in the last quarter of 2008, from 5.5% a year earlier ...
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18-Nov-2008
In his remarks, Mr Gurría highlighted the outcomes of the G-20 meeting where leaders called on a better collaboration between international organisations to support governments’ work on policies to overcome the crisis and lead the global economy back to sustainable growth.
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17-Nov-2008
Immigrants in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal are more likely to be unemployed or doing a job for which they are overqualified than people born in that country. Their children, even if born in the country and having left school with qualifications, also find it hard to find work, according to a new OECD report.
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17-Nov-2008
This publication reviews the labour market integration of immigrants and their children in four OECD countries - Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Portugal. The viability of future migration policies, in particular greater recourse to immigration, will depend to a large extent on how successful OECD countries and immigrants are in achieving the objective of successful integration in the labour market.
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29-Oct-2008
This report (Health Working Paper No. 40) examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce as well as the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management policies.
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29-Oct-2008
This paper (Health Working Paper No. 38) describes the migration of health workers to the U.K. until 2006 and potential future health expenditure.
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22-Oct-2008
OECD countries should adopt a comprehensive approach to the looming shortage of health workers, reinforce international cooperation and better monitor health workforce policies and international migration of doctors and nurses, according to a new OECD report.
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Events
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from 30-Jun-2006 to 01-Jul-2006
The seminar is organised by the Italian LEED Partner – Cittadinanzattiva in cooperation with the Active Citizenship Foundation (FONDACA) and the Frascati Group for corporate social responsibility.
The event will focus on the relationship between Citizens and enterprises in the framework of CSR strategies and more specifically on partnerships between Citizens’ organizations and Businesses in Europe.
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from 10-Jul-2006 to 12-Jul-2006
The seminar will bring together the policy makers and practitioners from the CEE and SEE countries allowing for discussion i) how to best introduce and implement prior assessment so that it serves as a tool for local strategy design and delivery ii) how to best support the local level so that evaluation becomes an opportunity for learning and stops being perceived as a threat.
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from 29-May-2006 to 31-May-2006
This workshop looked at local development assets and capacities in Northern Albania with a focus on the traditional handicraft sector, including skills development and the role of partnerships in the design, implementation and evaluation of local development strategies. This event was jointly organised by the OECD LEED Centre for Local Development and the International Labour Office (ILO).
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on 27-Feb-2006
This event was a follow-up of the Trento Centre capacity building seminar on entrepreneurship and further explored the theme of Entrepreneurship Spirit and Skills. It was organised by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development in collaboration with the Agency for Entrepreneurship Support of the Republic of Macedonia.
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on 19-Jul-2005
This seminar was organised by the OECD LEED Trento Centre for Local Development. It focused on disseminating information and tools for best practice evaluation approaches. The event is a part of the activities of the Evaluation Unit at the OECD LEED Trento Centre which aims to promote and develop culture of evaluation of local development strategies for entrepreneurship, local cohesion and good governance. For further information contact Ivana.Studena@oecd.org
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from 23-Nov-2005 to 24-Nov-2005
This year, the CEI SEF addressed the theme of Reforms key to Competitiveness. It was a platform to make business contacts and establish co-operation on investment projects and development programmes. The SEF also provided a unique chance to discuss structural reforms for improving business environment, development strategies for raising competitiveness, with a special focus on energy, infrastructure, and human resources. For more information, please contact Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org
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on 09-Dec-2005
This seminar was held back to back with the next meeting of the LEED Directing Committee. Ten years after the Czech Republic joined the OECD and the LEED Programme, what are the lessons that can be learned from the Czech experience in local development? This and other issues were addressed in this event organised by the LEED Programme in collaboration with the Government of the Czech Republic. For more information, please contact Sylvain.Giguere@oecd.org
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from 22-Sep-2005 to 23-Sep-2005
This OECD LEED International Conference sought to further explore the trends, opportunities and challenges that social economy actors face in the countries of the Baltic States, Central, East and South-East Europe. For more information on outcomes and results, please contact Paola.Babos@oecd.org
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on 22-Nov-2005
This seminar was organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development. The event sought to foster and develop a culture of evaluation of local development strategies that promote entrepreneurship, local cohesion and good governance. For further information, please contact Ivana.Studena@oecd.org.
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