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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. 82 | 23 Mar 2009 |
Child Well-Being and Sole-Parent Family Structure in the OECD
This paper addresses the causal impact of being raised in a sole-parent family on child well-being across the OECD. The question is answered by a cross-OECD meta-analysis and a literature review. There are widely varying rates of sole parenthood... |
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No. 235 | 20 Nov 2019 |
Child labour
Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7 aims to eradicate child labour in all its forms by 2025. Ten years before this deadline, the objective is far from being achieved since in 2016, about one-in-ten children (152 million in total) aged 5 to 17... |
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No. 218 | 23 Oct 2018 |
Child poverty in the OECD
This paper provides an overview of the main trends in child income poverty since the mid-2000s, and explores to what extent child poverty trends are linked to demographic, policy and/or labour market changes. Trends in poverty and the standard of... |
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No. 97 | 29 Oct 2009 |
Children of Immigrants in the Labour Markets of EU and OECD Countries
This document provides a first comparative overview of the presence and outcomes of the children of immigrants in the labour markets of OECD countries, based on a collection of data from 16 OECD countries with large immigrant populations. Its key... |
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No. 199 | 19 Jan 2018 |
Collective bargaining through the magnifying glass
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No. 116 | 20 Sept 2011 |
Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work Around the World
Household production constitutes an important aspect of economic activity and ignoring it may lead to incorrect inferences about levels and changes in well-being. This paper sheds light on the importance of unpaid work by making use of detailed... |
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No. 25 | 22 Jun 2005 |
Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD Countries
Results presented in this paper based on the new database on immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries, show that (i) the percentage of the foreign-born in European OECD countries is generally higher than the percentage of foreigners; (ii)... |
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No. 271 | 12 May 2022 |
De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. This paper proposes a new empirical approach for quantifying the accessibility and value of income... |
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No. 109 | 22 Oct 2010 |
Decomposing Notional Defined-Contribution Pensions
This paper compares notional defined-contribution pension schemes (also known as notional accounts) with two alternative designs of earnings-related pension schemes: points systems and definedbenefit plans. It examines, in detail, four economic... |
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No. 290 | 28 Mar 2023 |
Defining and classifying AI in the workplace
This document serves both as a conceptual and practical guide for defining and classifying AI, in order to help stakeholders analyse and understand its impact on the workplace. It first discusses how AI can be defined and provides a selection of AI... |
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No. 243 | 08 Jul 2020 |
Delivering evidence based services for all vulnerable families
The paper provides a summary on the role of family services in promoting child well-being, and then reviews the policy issues at all levels of the family service delivery systems. At the government level, the paper emphasizes the need to fostering... |
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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. 237 | 03 Feb 2020 |
Designing fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits
This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent years.... |
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No. 303 | 07 Feb 2024 |
Developing skills for digital government
<img src="https://assets.oecdcode.org/ilibraryres/img/DG-Reform_banner-Kappa_en.png" class="img-responsive" style="adding-bottom:5px;" alt="EU Funded Note"/>Digital technologies are having a profound impact on economies, labour markets and societies.... |
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No. 110 | 04 Oct 2010 |
Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely... |
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No. 225 | 18 Feb 2019 |
Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market?
This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker... |
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No. 145 | 23 May 2013 |
Drivers of Female Labour Force Participation in the OECD
This paper analyses the response of female labour force participation to the evolution of labour markets and policies supporting the reconciliation of work and family life. Using country-level data from the early 1980s for 18 OECD countries, we... |
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No. 118 | 06 Sept 2011 |
Early Maternal Employment and Child Development in Five OECD Countries
More mothers with young children are in paid work than in the past. There is a long-running debate on possible negative effects of maternal employment on child development. For the first time, this paper presents an initial comparative analysis of... |
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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...
Child Well-Being and Sole-Parent Family Structure in the OECD
Simon Chapple
23 Mar 2009
This paper addresses the causal impact of being raised in a sole-parent family on child well-being across the OECD. The question is answered by a cross-OECD meta-analysis and a literature review. There are widely varying rates of sole parenthood...
Child labour
Olivier Thévenon and Eric Edmonds
20 Nov 2019
Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7 aims to eradicate child labour in all its forms by 2025. Ten years before this deadline, the objective is far from being achieved since in 2016, about one-in-ten children (152 million in total) aged 5 to 17...
Child poverty in the OECD
Olivier Thévenon, Thomas Manfredi, Yajna Govind and Ilya Klauzner
23 Oct 2018
This paper provides an overview of the main trends in child income poverty since the mid-2000s, and explores to what extent child poverty trends are linked to demographic, policy and/or labour market changes. Trends in poverty and the standard of...
Children of Immigrants in the Labour Markets of EU and OECD Countries
Thomas Liebig and Sarah Widmaier
29 Oct 2009
This document provides a first comparative overview of the presence and outcomes of the children of immigrants in the labour markets of OECD countries, based on a collection of data from 16 OECD countries with large immigrant populations. Its key...
Collective bargaining through the magnifying glass
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins and Jante Parlevliet
19 Jan 2018
Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work Around the World
Veerle Miranda
20 Sept 2011
Household production constitutes an important aspect of economic activity and ignoring it may lead to incorrect inferences about levels and changes in well-being. This paper sheds light on the importance of unpaid work by making use of detailed...
Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD Countries
Jean-Christophe Dumont and Georges Lemaître
22 Jun 2005
Results presented in this paper based on the new database on immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries, show that (i) the percentage of the foreign-born in European OECD countries is generally higher than the percentage of foreigners; (ii)...
De-facto gaps in social protection for standard and non-standard workers
Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee and Daniele Pacifico
12 May 2022
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. This paper proposes a new empirical approach for quantifying the accessibility and value of income...
Decomposing Notional Defined-Contribution Pensions
Edward Whitehouse
22 Oct 2010
This paper compares notional defined-contribution pension schemes (also known as notional accounts) with two alternative designs of earnings-related pension schemes: points systems and definedbenefit plans. It examines, in detail, four economic...
Defining and classifying AI in the workplace
Marguerita Lane and Morgan Williams
28 Mar 2023
This document serves both as a conceptual and practical guide for defining and classifying AI, in order to help stakeholders analyse and understand its impact on the workplace. It first discusses how AI can be defined and provides a selection of AI...
Delivering evidence based services for all vulnerable families
Daniel Acquah and Olivier Thévenon
08 Jul 2020
The paper provides a summary on the role of family services in promoting child well-being, and then reviews the policy issues at all levels of the family service delivery systems. At the government level, the paper emphasizes the need to fostering...
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...
Designing fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits
Alexander Hijzen and Andrea Salvatori
03 Feb 2020
This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent years....
Developing skills for digital government
Magdalena Burtscher, Stefano Piano and Benjamin Welby
07 Feb 2024
<img src="https://assets.oecdcode.org/ilibraryres/img/DG-Reform_banner-Kappa_en.png" class="img-responsive" style="adding-bottom:5px;" alt="EU Funded Note"/>Digital technologies are having a profound impact on economies, labour markets and societies....
Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn
Herwig Immervoll, Olivier Bargain, Andreas Peichl and Sebastien Siegloch
04 Oct 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely...
Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market?
Otto Kässi and Vili Lehdonvirta
18 Feb 2019
This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker...
Drivers of Female Labour Force Participation in the OECD
Olivier Thévenon
23 May 2013
This paper analyses the response of female labour force participation to the evolution of labour markets and policies supporting the reconciliation of work and family life. Using country-level data from the early 1980s for 18 OECD countries, we...
Early Maternal Employment and Child Development in Five OECD Countries
María del Carmen Huerta, Willem Adema, Jennifer Baxter, Miles Corak, Mette Deding, Matthew C. Gray, Wen-Jui Han and Jane Waldfogel
06 Sept 2011
More mothers with young children are in paid work than in the past. There is a long-running debate on possible negative effects of maternal employment on child development. For the first time, this paper presents an initial comparative analysis of...