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No. 2 | 01 Jan 1996 |
The Provision of Services and The Movement of Labour in the Countries of the European Union
Service contracts which involve the movement of workers can result in a certain number of social problems. For example, it is generally difficult to measure labour flows stemming from such contracts and to know their impact on the labour market. In... |
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No. 3 | 01 Jan 1997 |
International Movements of the Highly Skilled
In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the importance of international recruitment and movement of the highly skilled. Modern industries and services increasingly rely upon the acquisition, deployment and use of human expertise to... |
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No. 1 | 13 Mar 2003 |
Career Interruptions Due to Parental Leave
Parental leave mandates are associated with high female employment rates, but with reductions in relative female wages if leave is of extended durations. If fathers were given longer periods of leave, would it shorten the career breaks of women? We... |
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No. 4 | 28 Apr 2003 |
Child Labour in Africa
This paper presents an overview of child labour in Africa. It discusses the incidence and nature of child labour, possible causes, and actual and potential policy instruments. It answers some questions and raises others.Africa has the highest... |
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No. 5 | 20 May 2003 |
Child Labour in South Asia
The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 19% of children aged 5-14 in Asia and the Pacific are economically active (ILO, 2002). These 127.3 million children constitute 60% of all child labourers worldwide. The aim of this study is... |
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No. 6 | 20 May 2003 |
Social Policies, Family Types and Child Outcomes in Selected OECD Countries
Child development and child well-being are major concerns in many OECD countries and are the subject of ongoing work at the OECD. These concerns have led to a search for policies to offset poverty, deprivation, vulnerability, and the risk factors... |
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No. 7 | 21 May 2003 |
The Impact of Parental Leave Statutes on Maternal Return to Work after Childbirth in the United States
Although new mothers are more likely than ever to be in the labour force, the time around childbirth is a dynamic one, with women quitting work altogether or changing jobs to accommodate the demands of their infants. The passage of Family and Medical... |
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No. 8 | 06 Jun 2003 |
Financial Resources and Retirement in Nine OECD Countries
Most countries give income-tax concessions to older people relative to people of working age. Some treat pension income more favourably than earnings, and most do not levy social security contributions on older people. These policies mean that the... |
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No. 9 | 06 Jun 2003 |
The Value of Pension Entitlements
Pension systems are complex and comparing them across countries is therefore difficult. This paper adopts standard methodology to calculate prospective pension entitlements in nine countries. The modeling ncludes universal and resource-tested... |
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No. 10 | 09 Jul 2003 |
Improving Workers' Skills
There is a wide consensus that workforce skills are an important determinant for economic growth. Alongside initial education, continuous education and training (hereafter referred to as CET) plays a key role in meeting these skill needs. This report... |
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No. 11 | 06 Aug 2003 |
Individual Choice in Social Protection
In most OECD countries, the structure of the pension system does not give much potential for individual choice. The Swiss pension system is a particularly interesting case in this respect. Switzerland relies heavily on privately-managed, fully-funded... |
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No. 12 | 19 Aug 2003 |
Towards Sustainable Development
Three main elements characterise the notion of sustainable development: first, a broad view of human well-being, in which environmental and social elements are important as well as economic ones; second, the view that many of the effects of today's... |
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No. 13 | 12 Sept 2003 |
The Competitive Market for Employment Services in the Netherlands
OECD countries are increasingly interested in structuring government organisation and the financing of job brokerage and employment reintegration services to use market forces. In the Netherlands, the introduction of market mechanisms has been part... |
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No. 14 | 19 Sept 2003 |
National Versus Regional Financing and Management of Unemployment and Related Benefits
Decentralization looms large in any analysis of Canadian economic and social policy. This trend has been especially pronounced in the area of unemployment insurance (UI) and social assistance (SA) programmes. Provinces now manage SA programmes and... |
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No. 16 | 22 Jan 2004 |
The Swedish Activity Guarantee
Until recently, an unemployed person in Sweden who participated in an active labour market programme earned entitlement to a further 60 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A "carousel" effect - cycling between periods of open unemployment... |
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No. 17 | 08 Mar 2004 |
Take-Up of Welfare Benefits in OECD Countries
This report provides an overview of the limited empirical and theoretical research on take-up of welfare benefits, i.e. the extent to which people eligible for various types of benefits actually receive them. Focus is mainly on entitlement... |
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No. 18 | 15 Mar 2004 |
Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps
This paper presents results from an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. The project uses and extends OECD tax-benefit models to compute a... |
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No. 19 | 02 Dec 2004 |
Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU
Macro-based effective tax rate (ETR) measures do not provide information on the level or distribution of marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in average ETRs facing different... |
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No. 21 | 09 Dec 2004 |
Design Choices in Market Competition for Employment Services for the Long-Term Unemployed
Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public bodies and non-profit organisations, but not by for-profit organisations. The creation of a quasi-market arrangement is not a simple choice for government. This... |
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No. 20 | 17 Dec 2004 |
Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies
The OECD regularly produces estimates of tax burdens and benefit entitlements for a range of “typical household” situations. The results of these calculations (published in the Benefits and Wages and Taxing Wages series) are frequently used to... |
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The Provision of Services and The Movement of Labour in the Countries of the European Union
Sophie Robin
01 Jan 1996
Service contracts which involve the movement of workers can result in a certain number of social problems. For example, it is generally difficult to measure labour flows stemming from such contracts and to know their impact on the labour market. In...
International Movements of the Highly Skilled
John Salt
01 Jan 1997
In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the importance of international recruitment and movement of the highly skilled. Modern industries and services increasingly rely upon the acquisition, deployment and use of human expertise to...
Career Interruptions Due to Parental Leave
Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith
13 Mar 2003
Parental leave mandates are associated with high female employment rates, but with reductions in relative female wages if leave is of extended durations. If fathers were given longer periods of leave, would it shorten the career breaks of women? We...
Child Labour in Africa
Sonia Bhalotra
28 Apr 2003
This paper presents an overview of child labour in Africa. It discusses the incidence and nature of child labour, possible causes, and actual and potential policy instruments. It answers some questions and raises others.Africa has the highest...
Child Labour in South Asia
Eric V. Edmonds
20 May 2003
The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 19% of children aged 5-14 in Asia and the Pacific are economically active (ILO, 2002). These 127.3 million children constitute 60% of all child labourers worldwide. The aim of this study is...
Social Policies, Family Types and Child Outcomes in Selected OECD Countries
Sheila B. Kamerman, Michelle Neuman, Jane Waldfogel and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
20 May 2003
Child development and child well-being are major concerns in many OECD countries and are the subject of ongoing work at the OECD. These concerns have led to a search for policies to offset poverty, deprivation, vulnerability, and the risk factors...
The Impact of Parental Leave Statutes on Maternal Return to Work after Childbirth in the United States
Sandra L. Hofferth and Sally C. Curtin
21 May 2003
Although new mothers are more likely than ever to be in the labour force, the time around childbirth is a dynamic one, with women quitting work altogether or changing jobs to accommodate the demands of their infants. The passage of Family and Medical...
Financial Resources and Retirement in Nine OECD Countries
Gordon Keenay and Edward Whitehouse
06 Jun 2003
Most countries give income-tax concessions to older people relative to people of working age. Some treat pension income more favourably than earnings, and most do not levy social security contributions on older people. These policies mean that the...
The Value of Pension Entitlements
Edward Whitehouse
06 Jun 2003
Pension systems are complex and comparing them across countries is therefore difficult. This paper adopts standard methodology to calculate prospective pension entitlements in nine countries. The modeling ncludes universal and resource-tested...
Improving Workers' Skills
Wooseok Ok and Peter Tergeist
09 Jul 2003
There is a wide consensus that workforce skills are an important determinant for economic growth. Alongside initial education, continuous education and training (hereafter referred to as CET) plays a key role in meeting these skill needs. This report...
Individual Choice in Social Protection
Monika Queisser and Edward Whitehouse
06 Aug 2003
In most OECD countries, the structure of the pension system does not give much potential for individual choice. The Swiss pension system is a particularly interesting case in this respect. Switzerland relies heavily on privately-managed, fully-funded...
Towards Sustainable Development
Marco Mira d'Ercole and Andrea Salvini
19 Aug 2003
Three main elements characterise the notion of sustainable development: first, a broad view of human well-being, in which environmental and social elements are important as well as economic ones; second, the view that many of the effects of today's...
The Competitive Market for Employment Services in the Netherlands
Ludo Struyven and Geert Steurs
12 Sept 2003
OECD countries are increasingly interested in structuring government organisation and the financing of job brokerage and employment reintegration services to use market forces. In the Netherlands, the introduction of market mechanisms has been part...
National Versus Regional Financing and Management of Unemployment and Related Benefits
David Gray
19 Sept 2003
Decentralization looms large in any analysis of Canadian economic and social policy. This trend has been especially pronounced in the area of unemployment insurance (UI) and social assistance (SA) programmes. Provinces now manage SA programmes and...
The Swedish Activity Guarantee
Anders Forslund, Daniela Froberg and Linus Lindqvist
22 Jan 2004
Until recently, an unemployed person in Sweden who participated in an active labour market programme earned entitlement to a further 60 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A "carousel" effect - cycling between periods of open unemployment...
Take-Up of Welfare Benefits in OECD Countries
Virginia Hernanz, Franck Malherbet and Michele Pellizzari
08 Mar 2004
This report provides an overview of the limited empirical and theoretical research on take-up of welfare benefits, i.e. the extent to which people eligible for various types of benefits actually receive them. Focus is mainly on entitlement...
Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps
Giuseppe Carone, Herwig Immervoll, Dominique Paturot and Aino Salomäki
15 Mar 2004
This paper presents results from an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. The project uses and extends OECD tax-benefit models to compute a...
Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU
Herwig Immervoll
02 Dec 2004
Macro-based effective tax rate (ETR) measures do not provide information on the level or distribution of marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in average ETRs facing different...
Design Choices in Market Competition for Employment Services for the Long-Term Unemployed
Ludo Struyven
09 Dec 2004
Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public bodies and non-profit organisations, but not by for-profit organisations. The creation of a quasi-market arrangement is not a simple choice for government. This...
Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies
Herwig Immervoll, Pascal Marianna and Marco Mira d'Ercole
17 Dec 2004
The OECD regularly produces estimates of tax burdens and benefit entitlements for a range of “typical household” situations. The results of these calculations (published in the Benefits and Wages and Taxing Wages series) are frequently used to...