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No. 248 | 11 Aug 2020 |
The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea: A preliminary assessment
To reduce the incidence of very long working hours, Korea is gradually implementing a major working-time reform, which lowers the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52 between 2018-2021. This paper provides a preliminary... |
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No. 247 | 29 Jul 2020 |
The new hazardous jobs and worker reallocation
This paper analyses several dimensions of workers’ safety that are relevant in the context of a pandemic. We provide a classification of occupations according to the risk of contagion: by considering a wider range of job characteristics and a more... |
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No. 246 | 29 Jul 2020 |
Working during COVID-19
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the unprecedented measures taken by many countries to slow down the spread of the coronavirus caused large economic and psychological costs. This paper uses real time survey data from two waves run at the end of March and... |
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No. 245 | 03 Jul 2020 |
Individualising training access schemes: France – the Compte Personnel de Formation (Personal Training Account – CPF)
The creation of the Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF), an individualised financing scheme for professional training, marked an important step for the French professional training system. Implemented in 2015, it is the only example at the... |
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No. 245 | 03 Jul 2020 |
L’individualisation des dispositifs d’accès à la formation: l’exemple français du Compte Personnel de Formation
La création du Compte personnel de formation (CPF) marque une étape importante pour le système français de formation continue en instituant un dispositif individualisé de financement de formations. Mis en œuvre en janvier 2015, il est actuellement le... |
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No. 244 | 18 Jul 2020 |
The changing labour market for graduates from medium-level vocational education and training
This working paper looks at the labour market outcomes of individuals who hold a medium-level VET qualification (defined as upper or post-secondary non-tertiary education with vocational orientation) today, as well as how they have changed in the... |
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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. 242 | 25 Jun 2020 |
Who can log in? The importance of skills for the feasibility of teleworking arrangements across OECD countries
COVID-19 lockdowns have radically changed the working arrangements for millions of workers. But who are the workers best positioned to work from home? Drawing on data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), we show that workers possessing... |
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No. 241 | 01 May 2020 |
Workforce composition, productivity and pay
In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity gaps between firms may have contributed to both developments. This paper uses a new harmonised cross-country linked employer-employee... |
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No. 240 | 20 Mar 2020 |
Treating all children equally?
Modern family life brings with it profound changes to children's family living arrangements. An increasing number of children live with unmarried parents whose informal cohabitation implies unequal rights in terms of access to welfare benefit and... |
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No. 239 | 20 Feb 2020 |
A global profile of emigrants to OECD countries
This paper presents new findings on the main characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries by country of origin, drawing from the updated Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) 2015/16. It describes migrant populations by country of... |
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No. 238 | 19 Feb 2020 |
What are Europeans’ views on migrant integration?
This paper provides an in-depth description of public opinion about immigrants’ integration in European countries, as captured in the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on this topic. It highlights a near consensus among European respondents on the meaning... |
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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. 236 | 30 Jan 2020 |
Technology and the future of work in emerging economies
Technological developments are likely to bring many new opportunities, which may be even larger in emerging economies and may allow them to “leapfrog” certain stages of development. Notwithstanding these opportunities, emerging economies face... |
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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. 234 | 16 Oct 2019 |
Under-employment
This paper examines how the increase in under-employment since the financial crisis stems from both cyclical and structural factors, notably the gradual shift of employment toward more demand-driven service sectors. The increase in under-employment... |
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No. 233 | 30 Sept 2019 |
Improving work-based learning in schools
Looking at secondary schools, this paper analyses work-based learning (WBL) as an element of both general education and vocational programmes. The workplace is a powerful learning environment where technical skills can be learnt from expert... |
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No. 232 | 19 Jul 2019 |
Job polarisation and the middle class
Labour markets across the OECD have polarised in recent decades, as the share of middle skill occupations has declined relative to that of both high- and low skill occupations. This paper shows that, contrary to what is often assumed in the public... |
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No. 231 | 04 Jun 2019 |
Returns to different forms of job related training
This study aims at disentangling the returns to formal, non-formal and informal training and fills key knowledge gaps. Informal learning is found to be by far the most common form of job-related learning at work. Learning informally at work is found... |
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No. 230 | 04 Jun 2019 |
What is happening to middle skill workers?
This report asks what is happening to middle-skill workers. Driven by mega trends such as automation, ageing and offshoring, the share of jobs whose wages placed them firmly in the middle of the wage distribution has been declining. Termed job... |
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The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea: A preliminary assessment
Alexander Hijzen and Stefan Thewissen
11 Aug 2020
To reduce the incidence of very long working hours, Korea is gradually implementing a major working-time reform, which lowers the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52 between 2018-2021. This paper provides a preliminary...
The new hazardous jobs and worker reallocation
Gaetano Basso, Tito Boeri, Alessandro Caiumi and Marco Paccagnella
29 Jul 2020
This paper analyses several dimensions of workers’ safety that are relevant in the context of a pandemic. We provide a classification of occupations according to the risk of contagion: by considering a wider range of job characteristics and a more...
Working during COVID-19
Vincenzo Galasso and Martial Foucault
29 Jul 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the unprecedented measures taken by many countries to slow down the spread of the coronavirus caused large economic and psychological costs. This paper uses real time survey data from two waves run at the end of March and...
Individualising training access schemes: France – the Compte Personnel de Formation (Personal Training Account – CPF)
Coralie Perez and Ann Vourc'h
03 Jul 2020
The creation of the Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF), an individualised financing scheme for professional training, marked an important step for the French professional training system. Implemented in 2015, it is the only example at the...
L’individualisation des dispositifs d’accès à la formation: l’exemple français du Compte Personnel de Formation
Coralie Perez and Ann Vourc'h
03 Jul 2020
La création du Compte personnel de formation (CPF) marque une étape importante pour le système français de formation continue en instituant un dispositif individualisé de financement de formations. Mis en œuvre en janvier 2015, il est actuellement le...
The changing labour market for graduates from medium-level vocational education and training
Marieke Vandeweyer and Annelore Verhagen
18 Jul 2020
This working paper looks at the labour market outcomes of individuals who hold a medium-level VET qualification (defined as upper or post-secondary non-tertiary education with vocational orientation) today, as well as how they have changed in the...
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...
Who can log in? The importance of skills for the feasibility of teleworking arrangements across OECD countries
Ricardo Espinoza and Laura Reznikova
25 Jun 2020
COVID-19 lockdowns have radically changed the working arrangements for millions of workers. But who are the workers best positioned to work from home? Drawing on data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), we show that workers possessing...
Workforce composition, productivity and pay
Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Katarzyna Grabska-Romagosa, Ryo Kambayashi, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Nordström Skans, Capucine Riom, Duncan Roth, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward and Wouter Zwysen
01 May 2020
In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity gaps between firms may have contributed to both developments. This paper uses a new harmonised cross-country linked employer-employee...
Treating all children equally?
Antonela Miho and Olivier Thévenon
20 Mar 2020
Modern family life brings with it profound changes to children's family living arrangements. An increasing number of children live with unmarried parents whose informal cohabitation implies unequal rights in terms of access to welfare benefit and...
A global profile of emigrants to OECD countries
Rohen d’Aiglepierre, Anda David, Charlotte Levionnois, Gilles Spielvogel, Michele Tuccio and Erik Vickstrom
20 Feb 2020
This paper presents new findings on the main characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries by country of origin, drawing from the updated Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) 2015/16. It describes migrant populations by country of...
What are Europeans’ views on migrant integration?
Lenka Drazanova, Thomas Liebig, Silvia Migali, Marco Scipioni and Gilles Spielvogel
19 Feb 2020
This paper provides an in-depth description of public opinion about immigrants’ integration in European countries, as captured in the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on this topic. It highlights a near consensus among European respondents on the meaning...
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....
Technology and the future of work in emerging economies
Daniel Alonso Soto
30 Jan 2020
Technological developments are likely to bring many new opportunities, which may be even larger in emerging economies and may allow them to “leapfrog” certain stages of development. Notwithstanding these opportunities, emerging economies face...
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...
Under-employment
Duncan MacDonald
16 Oct 2019
This paper examines how the increase in under-employment since the financial crisis stems from both cyclical and structural factors, notably the gradual shift of employment toward more demand-driven service sectors. The increase in under-employment...
Improving work-based learning in schools
Pauline Musset
30 Sept 2019
Looking at secondary schools, this paper analyses work-based learning (WBL) as an element of both general education and vocational programmes. The workplace is a powerful learning environment where technical skills can be learnt from expert...
Job polarisation and the middle class
Andrea Salvatori and Thomas Manfredi
19 Jul 2019
Labour markets across the OECD have polarised in recent decades, as the share of middle skill occupations has declined relative to that of both high- and low skill occupations. This paper shows that, contrary to what is often assumed in the public...
Returns to different forms of job related training
Priscilla Fialho, Glenda Quintini and Marieke Vandeweyer
04 Jun 2019
This study aims at disentangling the returns to formal, non-formal and informal training and fills key knowledge gaps. Informal learning is found to be by far the most common form of job-related learning at work. Learning informally at work is found...
What is happening to middle skill workers?
Andrew Green
04 Jun 2019
This report asks what is happening to middle-skill workers. Driven by mega trends such as automation, ageing and offshoring, the share of jobs whose wages placed them firmly in the middle of the wage distribution has been declining. Termed job...