|
|
News & Events
News
|
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.
|
Greater international cooperation needed to address looming shortages of doctors and nurses, says OECD
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.
|
Income inequality and poverty rising in most OECD countries
21-Oct-2008
Income gaps have widened over the past two decades in three-fourths of OECD countries. In today’s changing world economy, that means ever more people at risk of being left behind. According to Secretary-General Angel Gurria, “Ensuring growth for all, not just the rich, is the task we must set for ourselves.” Governments need not sit on the sidelines: they should respond to income inequality with policies that help lift people up.
|
Tailor immigration policies to future needs, says OECD
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
|
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.
|
Disability Seminar Vol III - Ireland, June 2008
27-Jul-2008
June 2008: Seminar on Disability in Dublin, Ireland, jointly organised by the OECD and the Irish Department of Social and Family Affairs, to discuss the main findings of Vol. 3.
|
Disadvantaged youth in Britain need better skills and effective job-search help
09-Jul-2008
Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD publication.
|
Disadvantaged youth in Britain need better skills and effective job-search help
09-Jul-2008
Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs, and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD report, Jobs for Youth: United Kingdom.
|
Top of page
|
World economy
Jobs for Youth
|
A free and easy way to receive the latest news on Employment Issues
