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News & Events
News
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02-Jul-2008
Women are 20% less likely than men to have a paid job in OECD countries and they earn on average 17% less than men, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Employment Outlook.
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26-Jun-2008
An Economic Survey is published every 1½-2 years for each OECD country and for some larger countries that are not members of the OECD, such as China, Russia and Brazil. It identifies the main economic challenges faced by the country and analyses policy options to meet them. You can find chapters on employment issues of the Surveys catalogued by country.
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16-Jun-2008
To catch up with more advanced economies, Serbia urgently needs to improve the functioning of its labour market. Despite many reforms, new business growth until now has been far too slow to compensate for job losses elsewhere.
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11-Jun-2008
The recent performance of the youth labour market in Canada is very good compared with most other OECD countries, according to the just-released OECD report on Jobs for Youth: Canada.
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22-May-2008
The new Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries.
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22-May-2008
Faced with exceptionally rapid population ageing, Korea should address obstacles that lower fertility rates while encouraging higher labour force participation, particularly among women.
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08-Apr-2008
Labour productivity has grown strongly in the Slovak Republic, Hungary and Korea in recent years while growth rates in some other OECD countries such as Italy, Mexico, Portugal and New Zealand have slowed markedly.
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29-Feb-2008
At a time when the subject of “globalisation” is on everyone’s lips, it is timely to reflect on the contribution of international migration to the ongoing wave of globalisation. Just how significant an engine of globalisation is international migration? What have been some of the main trends in international migration over the past half-century and how do they compare with the first great wave of international migration from the 1820s to the beginning of World War I?
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20-Feb-2008
New Zealand should encourage young people to stay in school past the age of 16 in order to boost their chances of finding a job, according to a new OECD report.
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Events
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on 29-Apr-2005
This Workshop was organised by the OECD LEED Programme in collaboration with the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) and the Embassy of Italy in the Dominican Republic. It aimed at discussing the challenges of implementing endogenous development strategies in their Caribbean and at analysing the use of SME clusters and entrerpreneurship as drivers for growth and local economic development. For more information, please contact gabriela.miranda-gallardo@oecd.org
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from 07-Jul-2005 to 08-Jul-2005
This major international conference focused on academic research in Enterprise and Innovation organised by the Waikato Management School, partners of the LEED Partners' Club. The conference provided a forum for scholars from around the world to share their latest theories and research on the drivers of entrepreneurial activities in local, regional, national and global economies. For more information, please contact enterprise2005@waikato.ac.nz
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from 11-Mar-2005 to 12-Mar-2005
This event was organised by the Luxembourg Social Economy Platform in collaboration with the LEED Programme. It brought together numerous social economy representatives from the 25 Member States of the EU and international experts. The conference aimed to emphasise the main ideas on social economy in the context of the Lisbon Strategy.
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from 26-Apr-2005 to 27-Apr-2005
The Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance met in Vienna for the first time. This was a unique opportunity to re-assess today’s need for partnerships, debate on best ways to work in partnership in practice, exchange know-how and experiences of existing partnerships and discuss the main innovations in funding partnerships. For more information, please contact Ms. Jana Machacova at machacova@forum.zsi.at
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on 03-Mar-2005
This event was a platform to debate the results of recent local governance developments in Lithuania in the light of experience from other countries, analyse the main obstacles met and identify ways to progress further. It was organised by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania and the OECD (LEED Programme) in co-operation with the European Commission. For more information, please contact Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org
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on 18-Jan-2005
This event was a unique opportunity to debate the results of recent local governance developments in Latvia in the light of experience from other countries, analyse the main obstacles met and identify ways to progress further. In particular it compared the results obtained by new forms of governance experimented with in various parts of the Baltic Rim and addressed some critical issues related to their effectiveness in generating better economic and social outcomes. For more information, please contact Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org
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from 13-Dec-2004 to 18-Dec-2004
This one-week seminar has been especially designed for local policy-makers and practitioners from South, Central, and Eastern Europe responsible for job creation and SME promotion. This training is organised by the LEED Programme through the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development. For further information, please contact Alessandra.Proto@oecd.org
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from 13-Dec-2004 to 18-Dec-2004
This one-week seminar has been especially designed for local policy-makers and practitioners from South, Central, and Eastern Europe responsible for job creation and SME promotion. This training was organised by the LEED Programme through the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development. For further information, please contact Alessandra.Proto@oecd.org
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from 21-Nov-2004 to 27-Nov-2004
This one-week seminar has been especially designed for policy-makers and practitioners from South, Central, and Eastern Europe responsible for local development issues. This training was organised by the LEED Programme through the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development. For further information, please contact Andrea-Rosalinde.Hofer@oecd.org
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from 14-Nov-2004 to 19-Nov-2004
This one-week seminar has been especially designed for policy-makers and practitioners from South, Central, and Eastern Europe responsible for social economic issues. This training was organised by the LEED Programme through the LEED Trento Centre for Local Development. For further information, please contact: Paola.Babos@oecd.org
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