OECD Social Indicators from Society at a Glance 2011

12-Apr-2011

Demography, unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction. This report also provides a special chapter on time on unpaid work across the OECD. 

Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators

21-Mar-2011

The project "Benefits and Wages" addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations and their impact on household incomes and financial work incentives.

OECD Pensions Indicators

17-Mar-2011

With co-operation from the EU and World Bank, and in view of the strong demand for cross-national indicators on the situation of pensions, the OECD has developed on-line indicators on pension outcomes and pension policies for all OECD/EU countries.

Ageing and Employment Policies - Statistics on average effective age of retirement

16-Mar-2011

One indicator of retirement behaviour that abstracts from more general factors
affecting the level of participation rates is the average effective age at which older workers withdraw from the labour force

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: March 2011

15-Mar-2011

In January 2011 the OECD area unemployment rate was 8.4%, down 0.1 percentage point from December.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: February 2011

15-Feb-2011

In December 2010 the OECD area unemployment rate was 8.5%, down 0.1 percentage point from November.

Summary data and tables from the OECD-EU labour market and social policy database on emerging economies

24-Jan-2011

This .xls file presents summary data for Brazil, China, India and South Africa, on: (1) Population, (2) Macroeconomic Trends, (3) Labour Market, (4) Wages and earnings, (5) LMPR (Labour Market Regulations and Policies), (6) Income and Inequality, (7) Poverty Rates and (8) Social Policies.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: January 2011

11-Jan-2011

In November 2010, the OECD area unemployment rate was 8.6%, unchanged from October.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: December 2010

13-Dec-2010

 In October 2010, the OECD area unemployment rate was 8.6%, up 0.1 percentage point from September.

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