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No. 3 | 02 Sept 1990 |
Wrongful Termination Litigation in the United States and its Effect on the Employment Relationship
Over the last decade, employment law in the United States has ceased to be governed solely by the right to 11 at will 11 termination on either side. As a result of a series of decisions in the civil courts of the various states, employers have become... |
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No. 35 | 01 Oct 1998 |
What Works Among Active Labour Market Policies
This paper seeks to answer the following question: what is the potential contribution which active labour market policies can make a part of a strategy to combat high and persistent unemployment and the problems of low pay and poverty among the... |
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No. 5 | 01 Jan 1991 |
Wage Differentials, Entry and the Job Generation Process in Germany
Based on information from the employment records of individual establishments in westernGermany (Federal Republic of Germany before the German unification) between 1977-1988, it is possible to shed some light on the characteristics and determinants... |
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No. 45 | 30 Mar 2001 |
Trends in Working Hours in OECD Countries
In recent years, the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment, which can be traced back for over a century, has slowed. In some countries, there has even been an increase in the average annual hours per person employed. In... |
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No. 24 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Trends in Secretarial Occupations in Selected OECD Countries, 1980-95
In all OECD countries secretarial occupations constitute a substantial part of all women's employment, are heavily female-dominated and subject to rapid and far-reaching technical change. They are also transversal to all sectors and organisations.... |
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No. 42 | 11 Aug 2000 |
Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area
This paper summarises trends and driving factors in income distribution and poverty in 21 OECD Member countries analysing separately the working- and the retirement-age populations. Shifts in relative incomes in the past ten years generally favoured... |
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No. 53 | 18 Sept 2001 |
Towards More Choice in Social Protection?
There is a considerable interest in some OECD countries in understanding how greater choice in health markets can be combined with the equity and efficiency goals of health systems.This paper reviews the system of free choice of insurer in basic... |
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No. 62 | 29 Oct 2002 |
The Relationship Between Personal, Family, Resource and Work Factors and Maternal Employment in Australia
The factors associated with mothers’ attachment to the labour force are of interest to social researchers and policy makers. Previous research conducted had found that factors such as mother’s education, number of children, partner’s employment and... |
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No. 7 | 01 Jan 1992 |
The Long-Term Unumployed and Measures to Assist Them
This Occasional Paper consists of an introduction, by a member of the Secretariat, giving some general reflections on measures to help reduce long term unemployment, and a report by a group of experts from eleven Member countries and representatives... |
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No. 37 | 24 Feb 1999 |
The Health of Older Persons in OECD Countries
This study extends research on the impact of age-specific disability trends internationally, with a specific emphasis on long-term care needs. It focuses on changing patterns of disability in populations over 65 for a set of OECD countries for which... |
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No. 32 | 17 Apr 1998 |
The Growing Role of Private Social Benefits
This paper contains a first analysis of trends in private social benefits within a comparative framework. There is growing interest in the role of the private sector in the provision of social support in the light of concerns about the high level of... |
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No. 63 | 13 Sept 2002 |
The Evolving Retirement Income Package
In 1998, the OECD issued a report, Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society, on the widespread policy implications of ageing. This study is a background paper for one of the follow-up studies, Ageing and Income: Financial Resources and Retirement... |
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No. 22 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The Definition of Part-Time Work for the Purpose of International Comparisons
National definitions of part-time work are based either on hours thresholds or on an assessment by the respondent of the nature of the job, or on a combination of both methods. This report compares the results obtained from the application of an... |
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No. 26 | 01 Jan 1997 |
The Concentration of Women's Employment and Relative Occupational Pay
This report assesses the relation between women’s employment in those occupations where they are most concentrated and their relative level of pay. The analysis is applied to seven countries - Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Norway, the United... |
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No. 13 | 01 Jan 1994 |
The 1993 OECD-Eurostat Compendium of Sources of Earnings Statistics
The objective of the Compendium of sources of earnings statistics is to provide a means of information for assessing earnings statistics’ comparability across OECD countries. However, the Compendium is also designed to be a source of information on... |
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No. 4 | 03 Sept 1990 |
Statistics of Annual Earnings in OECD Countries
Existing multi-country earnings statistics generally relate to only a fraction of the economy's industries and occupations, often to manual workers in manufacturing industry. This paper discusses the annual basis of measurement, which has particular... |
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No. 33 | 03 Jul 1998 |
Social and Health Policies in OECD Countries
The responses of countries to the OECD Caring World questionnaire, together with other available information, provides a good basis for summarising the main social policy trends with respect to the broad coverage of social protection arrangements,... |
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No. 16 | 01 Jan 1995 |
Social Protection for Dependent Elderly People
There is growing concern about the future provision of care for frail elderly people. Many countries have planned to reform services or the financing of care, but have found that the implementation of these plans has coincided with economic slow-down... |
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No. 58 | 09 Jan 2003 |
Social Assistance in Germany
This paper follows the framework developed in past OECD studies for analysis of social assistance programmes that aim to provide low-income clients with adequate financial support while simultaneously promoting their reintegration into labour market... |
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No. 55 | 17 Dec 2001 |
Public Support for Retirement Income Reform
The OECD has undertaken a comparison of the resources of older people in nine OECD countries – Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States – and has examined how the incomes of older... |
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Wrongful Termination Litigation in the United States and its Effect on the Employment Relationship
Susan R. Mendelsohn
02 Sept 1990
Over the last decade, employment law in the United States has ceased to be governed solely by the right to 11 at will 11 termination on either side. As a result of a series of decisions in the civil courts of the various states, employers have become...
What Works Among Active Labour Market Policies
John P. Martin
01 Oct 1998
This paper seeks to answer the following question: what is the potential contribution which active labour market policies can make a part of a strategy to combat high and persistent unemployment and the problems of low pay and poverty among the...
Wage Differentials, Entry and the Job Generation Process in Germany
Tito Boeri
01 Jan 1991
Based on information from the employment records of individual establishments in westernGermany (Federal Republic of Germany before the German unification) between 1977-1988, it is possible to shed some light on the characteristics and determinants...
Trends in Working Hours in OECD Countries
John M. Evans, Douglas C. Lippoldt and Pascal Marianna
30 Mar 2001
In recent years, the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment, which can be traced back for over a century, has slowed. In some countries, there has even been an increase in the average annual hours per person employed. In...
Trends in Secretarial Occupations in Selected OECD Countries, 1980-95
Hilary Steedman
01 Jan 1997
In all OECD countries secretarial occupations constitute a substantial part of all women's employment, are heavily female-dominated and subject to rapid and far-reaching technical change. They are also transversal to all sectors and organisations....
Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area
Michael Förster
11 Aug 2000
This paper summarises trends and driving factors in income distribution and poverty in 21 OECD Member countries analysing separately the working- and the retirement-age populations. Shifts in relative incomes in the past ten years generally favoured...
Towards More Choice in Social Protection?
Francesca Colombo
18 Sept 2001
There is a considerable interest in some OECD countries in understanding how greater choice in health markets can be combined with the equity and efficiency goals of health systems.This paper reviews the system of free choice of insurer in basic...
The Relationship Between Personal, Family, Resource and Work Factors and Maternal Employment in Australia
Edith Gray and Peter McDonald
29 Oct 2002
The factors associated with mothers’ attachment to the labour force are of interest to social researchers and policy makers. Previous research conducted had found that factors such as mother’s education, number of children, partner’s employment and...
The Long-Term Unumployed and Measures to Assist Them
OECD
01 Jan 1992
This Occasional Paper consists of an introduction, by a member of the Secretariat, giving some general reflections on measures to help reduce long term unemployment, and a report by a group of experts from eleven Member countries and representatives...
The Health of Older Persons in OECD Countries
Stephane Jacobzone, E. Cambois, E. Chaplain and J. M. Robine
24 Feb 1999
This study extends research on the impact of age-specific disability trends internationally, with a specific emphasis on long-term care needs. It focuses on changing patterns of disability in populations over 65 for a set of OECD countries for which...
The Growing Role of Private Social Benefits
Willem Adema and Marcel Einerhand
17 Apr 1998
This paper contains a first analysis of trends in private social benefits within a comparative framework. There is growing interest in the role of the private sector in the provision of social support in the light of concerns about the high level of...
The Evolving Retirement Income Package
Atsuhiro Yamada
13 Sept 2002
In 1998, the OECD issued a report, Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society, on the widespread policy implications of ageing. This study is a background paper for one of the follow-up studies, Ageing and Income: Financial Resources and Retirement...
The Definition of Part-Time Work for the Purpose of International Comparisons
Alois van Bastelaer, Georges Lemaître and Pascal Marianna
01 Jan 1997
National definitions of part-time work are based either on hours thresholds or on an assessment by the respondent of the nature of the job, or on a combination of both methods. This report compares the results obtained from the application of an...
The Concentration of Women's Employment and Relative Occupational Pay
Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery
01 Jan 1997
This report assesses the relation between women’s employment in those occupations where they are most concentrated and their relative level of pay. The analysis is applied to seven countries - Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Norway, the United...
The 1993 OECD-Eurostat Compendium of Sources of Earnings Statistics
OECD
01 Jan 1994
The objective of the Compendium of sources of earnings statistics is to provide a means of information for assessing earnings statistics’ comparability across OECD countries. However, the Compendium is also designed to be a source of information on...
Statistics of Annual Earnings in OECD Countries
David Grubb
03 Sept 1990
Existing multi-country earnings statistics generally relate to only a fraction of the economy's industries and occupations, often to manual workers in manufacturing industry. This paper discusses the annual basis of measurement, which has particular...
Social and Health Policies in OECD Countries
David W. Kalisch, Tetsuya Aman and Libbie A. Buchele
03 Jul 1998
The responses of countries to the OECD Caring World questionnaire, together with other available information, provides a good basis for summarising the main social policy trends with respect to the broad coverage of social protection arrangements,...
Social Protection for Dependent Elderly People
Patrick Hennessy
01 Jan 1995
There is growing concern about the future provision of care for frail elderly people. Many countries have planned to reform services or the financing of care, but have found that the implementation of these plans has coincided with economic slow-down...
Social Assistance in Germany
Willem Adema, Donald Gray and Sigrun Kahl
09 Jan 2003
This paper follows the framework developed in past OECD studies for analysis of social assistance programmes that aim to provide low-income clients with adequate financial support while simultaneously promoting their reintegration into labour market...
Public Support for Retirement Income Reform
Peter Hicks
17 Dec 2001
The OECD has undertaken a comparison of the resources of older people in nine OECD countries – Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States – and has examined how the incomes of older...