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No. 274 | 06 Sept 2022 |
Young people’s environmental sustainability competence
The paper is the first in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the... |
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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. 169 | 18 Aug 2015 |
Working and learning: A diversity of patterns
The combination of work and study has been hailed as crucial to ensure that youth develop the skills required on the labour market so that transitions from school to work are shorter and smoother. This paper fills an important gap in availability of... |
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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. 83 | 23 Mar 2009 |
Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained... |
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No. 147 | 23 Jul 2013 |
Women Entrepreneurs in the OECD
Important gender gaps in entrepreneurship exist. Men are three times more likely than women to own a business with employees. Women rarely own large businesses and their average earnings from selfemployment are up to 60% lower than for men. Cultural... |
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No. 283 | 30 Jan 2023 |
Who pays for higher carbon prices?
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines them in a way that is informative for mapping the gains... |
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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. 282 | 13 Dec 2022 |
What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers?
This paper exploits novel data on the degree of automatability of approximately 100 skills and abilities collected through an original survey of experts in AI, and link them to occupations using information on skill and ability requirements extracted... |
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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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No. 255 | 25 Jan 2021 |
What happened to jobs at high risk of automation?
This study looks at what happened to jobs at risk of automation over the past decade and across 21 countries.There is no support for net job destruction at the broad country level. All countries experienced employment growth over the past decade.... |
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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. 51 | 05 Mar 2007 |
What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty
Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the appropriate balance between the so-called “benefits strategy” (increasing the adequacy of benefits for low-income families with children)... |
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No. 117 | 28 Mar 2011 |
What Drives Inflows Into Disability?
This paper investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on labour market transitions to disability, employment and other non-employment pathways. It uses longitudinal data to estimate time discrete duration models for three countries: Australia,... |
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No. 28 | 29 Sept 2005 |
Welfare Reform in European Countries
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal... |
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No. 273 | 08 Jul 2022 |
Using Artificial Intelligence in the workplace
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are changing workplaces. AI systems have the potential to improve workplaces, but ensuring trustworthy use of AI in the workplace means addressing the ethical risks it can raise. This paper reviews possible risks... |
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No. 296 | 25 Jul 2023 |
Unemployment benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness in the United States
This paper analyses the impact of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) extensions on jobseeker households in selected US states and examines how these extensions compare to the pre-pandemic policies. The analysis finds that PUA extensions increase... |
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No. 280 | 08 Nov 2022 |
Understanding how economic conditions and natural disasters shape environmental attitudes
Understanding adults’ attitudes towards the environment is necessary to gauge the opportunities and challenges of creating effective and politically-feasible climate policies. Using data from the Wellcome Global Monitor 2020, the European Social... |
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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. 57 | 05 Sept 2007 |
Unauthorized Migrants in the United States
This report discusses methods of measuring unauthorized migration to the United States. The “residual method” involves comparing an analytic estimate of the legal foreign-born population with a survey-based measure of the total foreign-born... |
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Young people’s environmental sustainability competence
Francesca Borgonovi, Ottavia Brussino, Helke Seitz, Alice Bertoletti, Federico Biagi, Abdelfeteh Bitat, Zbigniew Karpinski and Marco Montanari
06 Sept 2022
The paper is the first in a series of two papers mapping young people’s environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries that were prepared as background for the forthcoming OECD Skills Outlook 2023 publication. The papers are the...
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...
Working and learning: A diversity of patterns
Glenda Quintini
18 Aug 2015
The combination of work and study has been hailed as crucial to ensure that youth develop the skills required on the labour market so that transitions from school to work are shorter and smoother. This paper fills an important gap in availability of...
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...
Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
Andrew E. Clark
23 Mar 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained...
Women Entrepreneurs in the OECD
Mario Piacentini
23 Jul 2013
Important gender gaps in entrepreneurship exist. Men are three times more likely than women to own a business with employees. Women rarely own large businesses and their average earnings from selfemployment are up to 60% lower than for men. Cultural...
Who pays for higher carbon prices?
Herwig Immervoll, Cathal O’Donoghue, Jules Linden and Denisa Sologon
30 Jan 2023
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines them in a way that is informative for mapping the gains...
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...
What skills and abilities can automation technologies replicate and what does it mean for workers?
Julie Lassébie and Glenda Quintini
13 Dec 2022
This paper exploits novel data on the degree of automatability of approximately 100 skills and abilities collected through an original survey of experts in AI, and link them to occupations using information on skill and ability requirements extracted...
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...
What happened to jobs at high risk of automation?
Alexandre Georgieff and Anna Milanez
25 Jan 2021
This study looks at what happened to jobs at risk of automation over the past decade and across 21 countries.There is no support for net job destruction at the broad country level. All countries experienced employment growth over the past decade....
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...
What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty
Peter Whiteford and Willem Adema
05 Mar 2007
Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the appropriate balance between the so-called “benefits strategy” (increasing the adequacy of benefits for low-income families with children)...
What Drives Inflows Into Disability?
Ana Llena-Nozal and Theodora Xenogiani
28 Mar 2011
This paper investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on labour market transitions to disability, employment and other non-employment pathways. It uses longitudinal data to estimate time discrete duration models for three countries: Australia,...
Welfare Reform in European Countries
Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez
29 Sept 2005
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal...
Using Artificial Intelligence in the workplace
Angelica Salvi del Pero, Peter Wyckoff and Ann Vourc'h
08 Jul 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are changing workplaces. AI systems have the potential to improve workplaces, but ensuring trustworthy use of AI in the workplace means addressing the ethical risks it can raise. This paper reviews possible risks...
Unemployment benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness in the United States
Eliza-Jane Pearsall, Daniele Pacifico and Edoardo Magalini
25 Jul 2023
This paper analyses the impact of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) extensions on jobseeker households in selected US states and examines how these extensions compare to the pre-pandemic policies. The analysis finds that PUA extensions increase...
Understanding how economic conditions and natural disasters shape environmental attitudes
Kentaro Asai, Francesca Borgonovi and Sarah Wildi
08 Nov 2022
Understanding adults’ attitudes towards the environment is necessary to gauge the opportunities and challenges of creating effective and politically-feasible climate policies. Using data from the Wellcome Global Monitor 2020, the European Social...
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...
Unauthorized Migrants in the United States
Jeffrey Passel
05 Sept 2007
This report discusses methods of measuring unauthorized migration to the United States. The “residual method” involves comparing an analytic estimate of the legal foreign-born population with a survey-based measure of the total foreign-born...