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Outsourcing in East Asia and its impact on the Japanese and Korean Labour Markets

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28-Jan-2008

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 65. This study describes the changing patterns of intermediate goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in East Asia and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets.

Credit Reporting System (CRS) Profile for South Korea

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03-Jan-2008

A CRS profile details the information the OECD holds on the DAC members' Official Development Assistance commitments and briefly describes the CRS codes used to proxy aid-for-trade categories. The CRS codes record the sector of destination of an activity and not the nature of the activity per se

Jobs for Youth/Des Emplois pour les Jeunes: KOREA

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20-Dec-2007

Improving the performance of youth on the labour market is a crucial challenge in OECD countries facing persistent youth unemployment. As labour markets become more and more selective, a lack of relevant skills brings a higher risk of unemployment ...

Babies and Bosses - Highlights - Korea

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29-Nov-2007

Across the OECD countries with high female employment rates also have the highest fertility rates. By contract, despite significant increases in educational attainment levels, only just over half of Korean women with a university level of education are in the workforce...

Health at a Glance 2007 - Press release in Korean

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13-Nov-2007

Health at a Glance 2007 - OECD회원국의 보건의료는 향상되고 있으나, 만성 질환 관리 개선 필요
- 당뇨 환자의 절반 가량만이 필수적인 안검진(eye  screening)을 받고 있음

Performance Budgeting in OECD Countries

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12-Nov-2007

Teresa Curristine

This book reviews the experiences of eight OECD countries which have developed and used performance information in the budget process over the past ten years. The book offers guidelines and recommendations on adapting budget systems to promote the use of performance information.

Korea - Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2007

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06-Nov-2007

This document contains extracts from the publication "Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2007" which provide a consistent snapshot of support to agriculture in Korea.

Addressing Labour Market Duality in Korea (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 61)

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05-Oct-2007

David Grubb, Jae-Kap Lee and Peter Tergeist

Labour market duality grew with "non-regular" (temporary, flexible and atypical)work. Social concern led to the Act on the Protection of Fixed term and Part time Employees. Topics include data, anti discrimination and employment protection legislation, the social safety net and informal employment.

Improving School Leadership - Country Background Report for Korea

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12-Sep-2007

This activity aims to support policy development through examining: the roles and responsibilities of school leaders, policies and conditions for making school leaders most effective, the development and support of effective school leadership and policies and practices conducive to these ends.