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Review of Recent Developments and Progress in Labour Market and Social Policy in Israel
This report presents the OECD's assessment of recent developments in Israel in the area of labour market and social policy. It focuses on recent trends in poverty and employment outcomes and policy development to improve employment opportunities,...
Global Value Chains and Developing Country Employment
This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in developing countries. Due to the difficulty of observing intra-GVC transactions, there is very little direct empirical work on GVCs and labour markets. However, it is possible to...
Taxing Wages 2013
Taxing Wages provides unique information on the taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. Taxing Wages 2013 includes a special feature entitled: ‘Average personal income tax rate and tax wedge progression in OECD countries.
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 estimate the influence of labour market and...
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Thematic Video on Employment
Did you know that youth has been hit hardest by the recession? In the first quarter of 2011, the OECD unemployment rate for young people was 17.4% compared with 7% for adults.