Employment

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Key Employment Statistics

The feature Key Employment Statistics allows cross-country comparisons on labour market indicators, outcomes, policies and institutions.

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Off to a good start? Jobs for Youth

The initial experience in the labour market has a profound influence on later working life. Getting off to a good start facilitates youth integration into the world of work and lays the foundation for a good career, while it can be difficult to catch up after an initial failure.

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The OECD "Sickness, Disability and Work" project

The OECD has launched a new country review on "Reforming Sickness and Disability Policies to Improve Work Incentives" in order to examine national policies to control and reduce the inflow into sickness and disability benefit programmes and to assist ...

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Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)

PIAAC will assess the level and distribution of adult skills across countries. It will focus on the key cognitive and workplace skills that are required for successful participation in the economy and society of the 21st century.

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Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children

The OECD is currently proceeding to country studies on the labour market integration of immigrants and their children. Studies for Australia, Denmark, Germany and Sweden are available on line.

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The OECD Jobs Strategy: Boosting Jobs and Incomes

In response to high and persistent unemployment in many OECD countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the OECD undertook a major study of the factors underlying the deterioration of labour market performance

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