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17-May-2012
OECD and ILO heads call upon the Ministers of Labour and Employment of the G20 countries to put a greater, renewed emphasis on employment policies to help economies accelerate and sustain the recovery, achieve higher levels of decent work and get out of the debt trap, at the G20 Meeting in Mexico.
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15-May-2012
Young people continue to bear the brunt of the jobs crisis, with nearly 11 million 15 to 24 year-olds out of work in OECD countries in early 2012. Youth unemployment in OECD area in March 2012 was 17.1%, close to its November 2009 peak of 18.3%, according to new OECD data released in advance of the G20 Labour Ministers Meeting in Mexico on 17-18 May.
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11-May-2012
The OECD area employment rate - defined as the proportion of people of working age (those aged 15 to 64) who have a job - was 64.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to new quarterly labour market statistics from the OECD.
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21-Mar-2012
Unit labour costs (ULCs) in the OECD area rose by 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with 0.2 per cent in the previous quarter, according to early estimates. This pick up in ULCs mainly reflects higher labour compensation per unit of labour input.
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15-May-2012
The OECD area unemployment rate was stable at 8.2% in March 2012, the same level recorded since February 2011. This flatness is largely the result of increasing rates in some euro area countries being offset by declines in North America.
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12-Dec-2011
Mental illness is a growing problem in society and is increasingly affecting productivity and well-being in the workplace, according to the new OECD report Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health at Work. It says that one in five workers suffer from a mental illness, such as depression or anxiety, and many are struggling to cope.
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17-Nov-2011
The economic outlook has weakened significantly over the past six months, which is not good news for employment or the prospects of those looking for work. But action targeted on youth and the long-term unemployed can, and must, be taken. An article by John P. Martin, Director, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.
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from 14-Nov-2011 to 15-Nov-2011
The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading scholars from Europe as well as from North America whose research focuses on labour activation in its various forms.
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03-Nov-2011
The OECD and IZA will hold a joint seminar on ‘Job creation in hard times: Learning from the past and new policy directions’. The aim of the seminar is to review the labour market consequences of the recent economic crisis and to share views on key policy lessons.
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28-Sep-2011
Read the new issue of the Employment, Migration and Social Policy Newsletter; all the country notes of our recent publications and the G20 Labour Ministerial, news on ongoing and upcoming projects, calendar of meetings and more .
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26-Sep-2011
G20 Labour and Employment ministers will meet in Paris on 26 and 27 September to discuss how to boost job creation and tackle unemployment rates that remain stubbornly high, especially in OECD countries.
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07-Jun-2011
The MCM 2011 brought together world leaders and ministers, sharing better policies to build a resilient and balanced world economy, supported by new sources of growth and jobs in developed and developing countries. Please read the final report on Trade and Jobs here .
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27-May-2011
In this interview for the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Stefano Scarpetta talks about what can be done to spur job creation and drive structural change.
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21-Dec-2010
Japan has high employment rates for men and older workers and relatively low unemployment. Benefit entitlements for the unemployed are limited, but other labour market policies, including efficient placement services, help to prevent unemployment and tackle labour market and social problems arising from it. Japan should push the implementation of several current reforms, which include expanding social insurance coverage among non-regular workers, easing access to social welfare and encouraging firms to bridge the gap between their age of retirement and the earliest access to a public pension.
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15-Dec-2010
The global economy is recovering but youth unemployment is getting worse, according to a new OECD report. Off to a Good Start? Jobs for Youth says that young people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as the average worker. Yet few governments are taking proactive steps to boost youth employment.
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22-Oct-2010
Switzerland has a highly effective labour market policy which combines a relatively generous benefit system and comparatively high expenditures on active market programmes with strong incentives to move into jobs. Given the low overall unemployment, however, the proportion of long term unemployed in labour force surveys is surprisingly high.
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29-Apr-2010
Angel Gurría provides an overview of labour market conditions in OECD countries and explains why large fiscal deficits complicate the policy options even further. He also describes what governments should do to promote a job-rich recovery that benefits all workforce groups, including the most vulnerable.
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29-Apr-2010
Speech and video of Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, addressing the role of labour market and social policy in promoting a job-rich recovery at the meeting of the G20 Employment and Labour Ministers.
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16-Apr-2010
Youth unemployment is set to keep rising in the months ahead. With G20 labour ministers meeting in Washington to discuss the jobs crisis, the OECD says more needs to be done to help young people find work and avoid falling into a “lost generation”.
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US should increase spending to help young people amid rising unemployment, says OECD
07-Dec-2009
The US should raise significantly federal funding on jobs programmes for young people in order to limit the impact of the economic downturn on the current generation of school leavers, according to a new OECD report. Given the pressure on public finances, this may require some reallocation of federal funding towards youth programmes.
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16-Sep-2009
Governments must act fast and decisively to prevent the recession turning into a long-term unemployment crisis, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. “Employment is the bottom line of the current crisis. It is essential that governments focus on helping jobseekers in the months to come,” he said at the launch of the OECD’s Employment Outlook 2009.
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17-Jul-2009
The effect of the crisis on unemployment. How much will unemployment rise in the coming months? What impact have government stimulus packages had on employment? Which groups of people are most likely to be affected? What should governments do? How will the crisis affect employment in developing countries?
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20-May-2009
France should do more to ease the transition of unskilled young people into employment. The government should give priority to helping young people the furthest removed from the job market and to strengthening the social protection of the most disadvantaged, according to a new report by the OECD.
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15-May-2009
Governments must urgently adapt their labour market policies to help their most vulnerable citizens in the economic crisis, as was concluded at the High-Level Forum on Sickness, Disability and Work in May 2009. Key to this will be avoiding that the crisis further strengthens a disability benefit culture that pushes many people with disability onto benefit schemes and out of work for the rest of their lives.
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