4-October-2017
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This paper estimates urban and rural poverty rates across five Chinese administrative regions (Shanghai, Liaoning, Guangdong, Henan and Gansu) in 2014 using representative household level data from the China Family Panel Studies survey.
4-September-2017
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This paper provides an overview of labour market resilience in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-09 and the role played by macroeconomic and structural policies.
4-September-2017
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This paper provides an overview of labour market resilience in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 09 and the role played by macroeconomic and structural policies.
28-August-2017
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Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living standards and well-being.
7-August-2017
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Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD countries, even after controlling for differences in per capita income and other social, cultural and lifestyle factors.
7-August-2017
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This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include the countries in the second wave of OECD Survey of Adult Skills, with a special focus on New Zealand.
7-August-2017
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This paper presents the global income distribution between all individuals living in the developed world.
30-June-2017
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The various deficiencies of the labour market and the educational system have resulted in high unemployment, low labour force participation, low skills levels and high skill mismatch.
23-June-2017
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Combining OECD Survey of Adult Skills-based indicators with OECD Trade in Value Added (TiVA) data sheds light on the way skills and their distributions (at the country-industry level) relate to industry performance and to integration into global value chains. The results underline the importance of cognitive skills such as literacy, numeracy and problem solving for any industry to thrive in the global economy.
23-June-2017
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Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality.