Actualités & Evénements

Bébés et Employeurs - Comment réconcilier travail et vie de famille (Vol. 3): Nouvelle Zélande, Portugal, Suisse

26-avr.-2004

Établir un équilibre convenable entre vie familiale et vie professionnelle est un enjeu auquel tous les parents sont confrontés. Bon nombre de parents et d’enfants, en Nouvelle-Zélande, au Portugal et en Suisse, sont satisfaits de leur organisation. Beaucoup d’autres, toutefois, ont de grandes difficultés à assumer l’une ou l’autre de ces responsabilités, et leur bien-être personnel s’en ressent. Certaines personnes voudraient avoir des enfants, mais ne voient pas comment concilier cette responsabilité et leur situation professionnelle.

Observateur de l'OCDE : Réduire les écarts de formation

29-mars-2004

La société de l’information offre des perspectives séduisantes, mais encore faut-il que chacun ait reçu la formation nécessaire pour y prendre part, surtout ceux qui en ont le plus besoin.

Publication "Benefits & Wages (2004)" will be released on 7 December 2004

25-mars-2004

The most current edition of Benefits and Wages was published in 2002 . The next edition will be released on 7 December 2004, and will include analyses of
- the implications of taxes and social transfers for people living in poverty, and
- the net incomes of employees earning statutory minimum-wages, and
- the financial gains for part-time employees to work longer hours.

Bébés et employeurs - Comment réconcilier travail et vie de famille (Vol. 2) : Autriche, Irlande, Japon

16-mars-2004

Élever ses enfants et avoir une carrière professionnelle sont deux objectifs très importants dans la vie de la plupart des gens. Il est donc fondamental pour nos sociétés d’aider les parents à réaliser ces deux objectifs. En effet, l’attention des parents joue un rôle déterminant dans le développement des enfants et l’emploi des parents contribue à la prospérité économique d’un pays. Ne pas aider les parents à trouver un équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie familiale peut avoir des répercussions importantes tant au niveau de l’offre sur le marché du travail qu’au niveau des décisions à prendre au sein de la famille.

Babies and Bosses - Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 1): Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands

16-mars-2004

Reconciling work and family life involves two key goals for both individuals and society: being able to work, to earn an income while participating in the most important social activity of modern life, and providing the best care and nurturing for one’s own children. These aspirations need not be mutually exclusive.

Reforming Public Pensions - Sharing the Experiences of Transition and OECD Countries

11-mars-2004

Certain reforms to pension policies have already been undertaken and those proposed inevitably deal with a number of difficult challenges and potential trade-offs: the desirability of providing adequate replacement income and tackling problems of poverty in old age; the imbalance between time spent in work and in retirement; the appropriate mix of different forms of retirement income provisions; the labour market implications of different approaches to financing pensions; and the potential complexities of meeting short-term and long-term policy objectives.
This book addresses these issues through a critical appraisal of the practical lessons of public pension reforms over the past decade in Central and Eastern Europe, and how they compare with reforms in other OECD member countries.
Countries covered include the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, the Russian Federation and Lithuania, as well as Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

Benefits and Wages - OECD Indicators - 2002

08-mars-2004

Unemployment and related welfare benefits help prevent those without work from falling into poverty but at the same time, reduce the incentive to work; this is one of the main dilemmas of social policy.

The Economic and Social Aspects of Migration - Brussels, 21-22 January 2003

An International Conference on the Economic and Social Aspects of Migration, jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD, took place in Brussels on 21 and 22 January 2003. This conference analysed the social and economic challenges of migration in relation to the demographic structure and the economic situation of OECD Member countries, as well as labour market needs, and the prospects for the integration of immigrants and equal opportunities.
The conference provided the opportunity to identify the implications for future migration policies of the economic and social dimensions of migration. Using a comparative approach between European and non-European OECD Member countries, the role that migration could play in alleviating labour shortages and the best practices in the successful integration of immigrants were highlighted, including
the fundamental role played by women. The participants agreed on the need to improve communication, in order to better inform the public on the costs and benefits of immigration, to allow them to understand the grounds for the policies implemented by governments.

Career Interruptions due to Parental Leave: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No.1)

08-sept.-2003

by Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith

Transformer le handicap en capacité: Promouvoir le travail et la sécurité des revenus des personnes handicapées

19-févr.-2003

Comment concilier les deux objectifs indissociables mais parfois contradictoires de la politique de l'invalidité ? C'est un problème que les pays de l'OCDE n'ont pas encore résolu.