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Creating more and better jobs is a major task for most governments. Our work on the
- Employment Outlook ,
- the Restated OECD Jobs Strategy,
- labour market policies,
- upgrading workers' skills (PIAAC project) and
- younger, older and disabled people helps address this challenge.
Our large range of labour market statistics and indicators also provide the hard facts.
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02-Jul-2008
Women are 20% less likely than men to have a paid job in OECD countries and they earn on average 17% less than men, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Employment Outlook.
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02-Jul-2008
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have become one of the key drivers of the
world economy and their importance continues to grow around the world.
The increased influence of OECD-based MNEs in developing countries is
particularly striking.
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02-Jul-2008
Women and ethnic minorities still find it harder to get a good job than other workers in OECD countries, and are more likely to be paid less, despite impressive improvements in recent years. One reason for this continuing problem is discrimination – unequal treatment of equally productive individuals because of gender or race.
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16-Jun-2008
To catch up with more advanced economies, Serbia urgently needs to improve the functioning of its labour market. Despite many reforms, new business growth until now has been far too slow to compensate for job losses elsewhere.
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11-Jun-2008
The recent performance of the youth labour market in Canada is very good compared with most other OECD countries, according to the just-released OECD report on Jobs for Youth: Canada.
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from 23-Jun-2008 to 24-Jun-2008
Jointly organised by OECD and ILO, this conference was devoted to the theme of "Employment and Industrial Relations: Promoting Responsible Business Conduct in a Globalising Economy". Discussions focused on wider dissemination of good corporate labour practices and better understanding and use of the OECD and ILO instruments.
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from 17-Apr-2008 to 19-Apr-2008
Should central government leave economic and employment development to local policy makers? Employment ministers from OECD countries, including Finland, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, will address such questions at a conference in Venice, Italy, from 17-19 April 2008.
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16-Jul-2007
In 1994, the OECD undertook a major study of the factors underlying the deterioration of labour market performance and the 2006 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides an overall reassessment of the OECD Jobs Strategy.
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