Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: May 2009

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11-May-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.6% in March 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.0 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

OECD Social Indicators from Society at a Glance 2009

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04-May-2009

Demography, unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction. This report also provides a special chapter examines leisure time across the OECD.  See also the Asia/Pacific 2009 Edition.

The real economy and the crisis: revisiting productivity fundamentals

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30-Apr-2009

Discussions about the current crisis often present events in a sequence, such as that the US sub-prime crisis in August 2007 triggered a major inter-bank credit crisis, which transformed itself into a ...

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: April 2009

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10-Apr-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.3% in February 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.7 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

International Migration Data 2009

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06-Apr-2009

NEW! These tables extracted from International Migration Outlook 2008 contain data on foreign and foreign-born population, migration flows, naturalisations and labour market outcomes.</S

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: March 2009

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09-Mar-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.9% in January 2009, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.3 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

OECD System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes - Updated: February 2009

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13-Feb-2009

Unit labour costs in industry rose 1.0% quarter-on-quarter in the OECD area in the third quarter of 2008 (0.8% in second quarter) and resulting in a year-on-year growth rate of 2.6%.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: February 2009

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09-Feb-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.8% in December 2008, 0.2 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.1 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: January 2009

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12-Jan-2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.5% in November 2008, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.8 percentage point higher than a year earlier.

OECD Family database

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22-Dec-2008

The OECD has developed an Family database with indicators for all OECD countries categorised under 4 broad headings: the structure of families, the labour market position of families, Public policies for families and children, and Child outcomes.

Employment crisis: What can governments do?

Interview with Stefano Scarpetta

Global downturn

Tackling the crisis

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