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Date	Content type	Title
17 Dec 2008	Book English	PDF READ Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: Japan 2009 OECD, Pages: 132 Presents a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people in Japan, assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work and making recommendations for further action.
02 Dec 2008	Book English	PDF EPUB READ Sustainable Development: Linking Economy, Society, Environment Tracey Strange, Anne Bayley, Pages: 142 A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.
18 Nov 2008	Book English	PDF READ Higher Education to 2030, Volume 1, Demography OECD, Pages: 300 Drawing on trend data and projections, this book takes an in-depth look at how demographic changes will affect higher education to 2030.
18 Nov 2008	Book English	PDF READ Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 3): Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands OECD, Pages: 176 This third report in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work looks specifically at the cases of Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands, and highlights the roles of institutions and policies.
17 Nov 2008	Book English/French	PDF READ Labour Force Statistics 2008 OECD, Pages: 476 This annual edition of Labour Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector and part-time...
13 Nov 2008	Book English	PDF READ Effective Aid, Better Health OECD, World Health Organization, The World Bank, Pages: 40
03 Nov 2008	Book English	PDF READ Jobs for Immigrants (Vol. 2): Labour Market Integration in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal OECD, Pages: 334 This publication reviews the labour market integration of immigrants and their children in four OECD countries -- Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Portugal -- and provides country-specific recommendations.
21 Oct 2008	Book English	PDF READ Growing Unequal?: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries OECD, Pages: 312 This report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across OECD countries, but the timing, intensity and causes of the increase differ from what is typically suggested in the media.
01 Oct 2008	Book English	PDF READ West African Mobility and Migration Policies of OECD Countries OECD, Sahel and West Africa Club, Pages: 140 This publications reviews migration policies in the main OECD countries receiving West African migrants and analyses the recent discussions concerning West African migration.
24 Sep 2008	Book English	PDF READ Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market OECD, Pages: 216 This report assesses how pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies have contributed to the achievement of certain health policy objectives, and it examines the national and transnational effects of these policies.
23 Sep 2008	Book English	PDF READ The Looming Crisis in the Health Workforce: How Can OECD Countries Respond? OECD, Pages: 96 OECD countries face a challenge in responding to the growing demand for doctors and nurses over the next 20 years. This book identifies possible ways to deal with these potential shortages.
22 Sep 2008	Book English	PDF READ Complementary and Private Pensions throughout the World 2008 OECD, International Social Security Association, International Organisation of Pension Supervisor, Pages: 540 Complementary and Private Pensions Throughout the World 2008 provides in-depth information on the regulation and supervision of voluntary and mandatory occupational pension plans as well as mandatory private pension schemes in 58 countries worldwide.
16 Sep 2008	Book English	PDF READ The Global Competition for Talent: Mobility of the Highly Skilled OECD, Pages: 165 Drawing on analytical literature, the most recent data available, and policy inventories, this publication discusses the dimensions, significance, and policy implications of international flows of human resources in science and technology.
10 Sep 2008	Book English	PDF READ International Migration Outlook 2008 OECD, Pages: 396 This edition focuses on the employment situation of immigrants. For the first time, this report presents a "scoreboard" of labour-market integration of immigrants, as well as an analysis of wage differentials between immigrants and the native-born.
27 Aug 2008	Book English	PDF READ Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: Norway 2008 OECD, Pages: 140 A survey of the main barriers to employment for young people in Norway, along with an assessment of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work, and a set of policy recommendations for further action by the public authorities and...
18 July 2008	Book English	PDF READ OECD Employment Outlook 2008 OECD, Pages: 368 This 2008 edition of OECD's annual report on labour markets brings the reader detailed information on recent labour market developments, as well as in-depth analysis of the effects of various policy measures and prospects through 2009.
09 July 2008	Book English	PDF READ Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: United Kingdom 2008 OECD, Pages: 168 Contains - for the UK - a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the existing measures to improve the transition from school-to-work, and a set of policy recommendations.
07 July 2008	Book English	PDF READ Gender and Sustainable Development: Maximising the Economic, Social and Environmental Role of Women OECD, Pages: 82 Sustainable development depends on maintaining long-term economic, social, and environmental capital. In failing to make the best use of their female populations, most countries are underinvesting in the human capital needed to assure ...
20 June 2008	Book English	PDF READ OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies: Serbia 2008: A Labour Market in Transition OECD, Pages: 104 Reviews Servbia's labour market trends and the challenges to labour market policy.
11 June 2008	Book English	PDF READ Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: Canada 2008 OECD, Pages: 172 This report on Canada contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work, and a set of policy recommendations.

Presents a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people in Japan, assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work and making recommendations for further action.

A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.

This third report in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work looks specifically at the cases of Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands, and highlights the roles of institutions and policies.

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