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Norway’s job market works for most youth but too many rely on sickness benefits

27-Aug-2008

On many counts, the youth labour market in Norway is performing very well. The unemployment rate among young people aged 16-24 was 7.3% in 2007, 6 percentage points below the OECD average and the employment rate was almost 12 percentage points above the OECD average.

Disadvantaged youth in Britain need better skills and effective job-search help

09-Jul-2008

Young people in Britain who leave school without qualifications find it particularly hard to get jobs, and U.K. authorities need to take vigorous action to help them with education and training and with job-search support, according to a new OECD report, Jobs for Youth: United Kingdom.

OECD Employment database

29-Aug-2008

Find statistics and indicators on: unemployment, employment, labour force and population of working-age; job duration, working time and earnings and; statutory minimum wages, employment protection legislation, labour market policies and union membership.

Labour market discrimination still a big problem in OECD countries

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.

OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies Serbia: A Labour Market in Transition

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.

Canada’s youth labour market outperforms most OECD countries but a small group is left behind

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.

OECD-ILO Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

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.

OECD conference on labour market policy, Venice, Italy, 17-19 April 2008

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.

The Reevaluation of the OECD Jobs Strategy

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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