Employment
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Books and Papers
Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives
This book presents a strategy that will help countries reach the goal of having and making the best use of a high-quality pool of skills.
Trade, Employment and Structural Change
International trade produces income gains across the world by facilitating an efficient allocation of production among trading countries. However, increased trade exposure also creates some challenges, and there are adjustment costs associated with changing trade patterns. Effective...
Statistics
Average annual working time
This table includes average annual working time in hours per worker. The table is part of the key table collection on employment and labour markets.
Sick on the Job?
This report aims to identify the knowledge gaps and begin to narrow them by reviewing evidence on the main challenges and barriers to better integrating people with mental illness in the world of work.
ICT Skills and Employment
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet are increasingly viewed as a vital infrastructure for all sectors of the economy. Already, employment in the ICT industry and employment of ICT specialist skills each accounts for up to 5% of total employment in OECD countries...
Focus
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.