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DELSA Newsletter Issue 6 - Healthier markets Drug policy and workforce planning

16-Jan-2009

Effective medicines save lives and improve quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. But health gains come at a cost: affordability is a growing challenge as drug spending outstrips growth in national income in most OECD countries.

New study on the HRM challenges of multi-level government

15-Jan-2009

What does it mean for a national government when important decisions about public employment and public employees are taken by sub-national governments? What are the risks that the national government runs as a result of the decentralisation of responsibilities and competences, and what strategies and measures can a national government develop to manage these risks? These are the questions dealt with in this study.

Asian countries should reform their pension systems

07-Jan-2009

Many Asian countries will need to reform their pension systems in order to deliver sustainable and adequate retirement incomes for today’s workers, according to a new OECD report.

Japan could do more to help young people find stable jobs

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.

Publication on The State of the Public Service

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.

ELSA Seminar Series

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.

Impact of the economic crisis on employment and unemployment in the OECD countries

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 ...

ILO Working Party on Social Dimensions of Globalisation

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.

Helping immigrants and their children find work should be a priority, says OECD

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.

International Mobility of Health Professionals and Health Workforce Management in Canada: Myths and Realities

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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