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Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: June 2016

OECD unemployment rate stable at 6.4% in April 2016

Recruiting Immigrant Workers: Europe 2016

Tax incentives and skills: A cautionary tale about the risk of complexity

Tax incentives are used widely across OECD countries to incentivise individuals to invest in education and training, but are they effective? Recent evidence from the USA highlights the risk of creating overly complex systems in which the embedded incentives are no longer fully understood by individuals. This carries an important lesson for other countries in designing their own tax measures for skills investments.

Anticipating Change: Work, Skills and Job Quality

To maximise the positive impact of digitalisation on productivity and growth, countries will need to invest in the right skills, promote job quality, and adapt labour market institutions and social protection to the new world of work. This raises a number of interrelated challenges. This paper provides suggestions on which policies are needed to confront these challenges and anticipate change.

Refugees are not a burden but an opportunity

When nearly a million Vietnamese “boat people” fled their country in the late 1970s and early 1980s and sought refuge elsewhere, they were typically seen as a burden and often turned away. Eventually, many were allowed to settle in the US. Most arrived speaking little or no English and with few assets or relevant job skills. Yet Vietnamese refugees are now more likely to be employed and have higher incomes than people born in the US.

Are we only apparently mismatched? Reasons and consequences of apparent qualification mismatch

Workers can be mismatched by qualifications while their skills are, in fact, adequate for their jobs. This situation, ‘apparent’ qualification mismatch is more common in certain fields of study than in others and speaks to the need of strengthening the links between employers, education providers and students to share information on the true skills, to avoid true skills mismatch.

Business brief: Jobs in the digital era work differently

Ongoing innovation in technology is changing labour markets worldwide. To understand the future of work in the digital era, we need to move away from the traditional economic classification of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors.

What dads can do for gender equality

Prince William did it, Justin Timberlake did it, and so did David Cameron and Mark Zuckerberg. All four took paternity leave to spend time with babies George, Charlotte, Silas, Florence and Max. These trailblazers are great role models in combining family and work–at least when a new baby arrives–but men around the world are still too slow in following their example.

Job quality

The OECD has developed a new framework for measuring and assessing job quality that considers three dimensions, both important for workers’ well-being and relevant for policy. Together, the three dimensions described below allow for a comprehensive assessment of job quality.

Inclusive Business Creation - Good Practice Compendium