OECD employment outlook : June 2001.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--OECD countries.

Labor supply.

Employment forecasting--OECD countries.

Employment forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : OECD Publications Services, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edition of the OCED Employment Outlook provides in-depth analysis of a number of crucial policies: poverty dynamics, the characteristics and quality of service sector jobs, the work-family balance, and foreign workers.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Editorial: Reconciling social and employment goals""; ""Chapter 1. Recent Labour Market Developments and Prospects""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Recent developments and prospects""; ""A. Economic outlook to the year 2002""; ""Table 1.1. Growth of real GDP in OECD countries""; ""B. Employment and unemployment""; ""C. Compensation and labour costs""; ""D. The unemployment-vacancy relation: a Beveridge curve analysis""; ""Evidence of a skilled-worker shortage?""; ""Table 1.2. Employment and labour force growth in OECD countries""

""Evidence of structural change?""""Table 1.3. Unemployment in OECD countries""; ""Table 1.4. Business sector labour costs in OECD countries""; ""Box 1.1. Beveridge curves""; ""Chart 1.1. Job vacanciesa and unemployment""; ""II. Labour market policies: how the money has been spent""; ""A. Introduction""; ""B. How did labour market expenditure vary between 1985 and 1998?""; ""Box 1.2. Main features of the OECD LMP database""; ""Chart 1.2. OECD spending on active/passive measures, 1985-1998""; ""Table 1.5. Spending on labour market programmes, 1985, 1989, 1993 and 1998""

""Chart 1.3. Active/passive spending and unemployment rates, 1985-1998""""C. How did the pattern of spending on active measures change?""; ""Chart 1.4. Composition of active spending in the OECD area, 1985-1998""; ""Chart 1.5. Composition of active spending in OECD regions, 1998""; ""D. New developments in policies and measuring instruments""; ""Chart 1.6. OECD participant inflows into ALMPs, 1985-1998""; ""Box 1.3. New measuring instruments for labour market programmes""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Annex 1.A. Country groupings and estimations""

""Table 1.A.1. Regional groupings: expenditure data""""Table 1.A.2. Country groupings: participant inflows""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 2. When Money is Tight: Poverty Dynamics in OECD Countries""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Main findings""; ""I. Overview of the issues and empirical approach""; ""A. Issues to be addressed""; ""B. Measuring poverty and its dynamics""; ""Box 2.1. Relative versus absolute poverty measures""; ""C. Data sources""; ""II. Poverty dynamics over three years""; ""A. Poverty incidence over three years""; ""Cross-sectional poverty rates: the baseline""

""Chart 2.1. Alternative single-year poverty measures, average values for 1993-1995""""Table 2.1. Alternative poverty rates, 1993-1995""; ""Multi-year measures of poverty incidence""; ""Chart 2.2. Alternative multi-year poverty rates, 1993-1995""; ""Box 2.2. Child poverty""; ""Chart: Child versus adult poverty over three years""; ""B. Short-run dynamics""; ""Entry and exit rates""; ""Chart 2.3. Poverty duration and 3-year average income of persons ever poor, 1993-1995""; ""Table 2.2. Gross rates of entry and exit and average duration of poverty, 1993-1995""

""Total years in poverty and permanent-incomes of persons ever poor""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-08194-5

9786610081943

92-64-19312-X

OCLC:

642661529