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24-November-2015

English

Education at a Glance 2015: Japan

The 2015 edition introduces more detailed analysis of participation in early childhood and tertiary levels of education. The report also examines first generation tertiary-educated adults’ educational and social mobility, labour market outcomes for recent graduates, and participation in employer-sponsored formal and/or non-formal education.

15-septembre-2015

Français

Assainir les finances publiques tout en promouvant la cohésion sociale au Japon

Avec une dette publique brute de 226 % du PIB, le Japon se trouve dans une situation budgétaire sans précédent, qui met en péril son économie. Le Japon a besoin d'un programme d'assainissement budgétaire précis et crédible, prévoyant des mesures spécifiques d'accroissement des recettes et de maîtrise des dépenses, afin de renouer avec la viabilité budgétaire.

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Achieving fiscal consolidation while promoting social cohesion in Japan

15-septembre-2015

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Renforcer le dynamisme et l'innovation dans le secteur des entreprises au Japon

Le Japon consacre des dépenses considérables à l'enseignement et à la recherche-développement (R-D), mais des conditions-cadre appropriées sont cruciales pour accroître le rendement de ces investissements en renforçant la concurrence, tant sur le plan interne qu'international, et en améliorant la répartition des ressources.

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Enhancing dynamism and innovation in Japan's business sector

21-August-2015

English

OECD Reviews of Health Care Quality: Japan 2015 - Raising Standards

This report reviews the quality of health care in Japan, and seeks to highlight best practices, and provides a series of targeted assessments and recommendations for further improvements to quality of care. One of Japan’s foremost policy challenges is to create an economically-active ageing society. Excellent health care will be central to achieving this. A striking feature of the Japanese health system is its openness and flexibility. In general, clinics and hospitals can provide whatever services they consider appropriate, clinicians can credential themselves in any speciality and patients can access any clinician without referral. These arrangements have the advantage of accessibility and responsiveness. Such light-touch governance and abundant flexibility, however, may not best meet the health care needs of a super-ageing society. Japan needs to shift to a more structured health system, separating out more clearly different health care functions (primary care, acute care and long-term care, for example) to ensure that peoples’ needs can be met by the most appropriate service, in a coordinated manner if needed. As this differentiation occurs, the infrastructure to monitor and improve the quality of care must simultaneously deepen and become embedded at every level of governance –institutionally, regionally and nationally.

7-August-2015

English

How is corporate governance in Japan changing? Developments in listed companies and roles of institutional investors

OECD Corporate Governance Working Paper No.17. This report examines the influence of institutional shareholders and their activities towards good corporate governance, the historical changes to practices within shareholder meetings and the role that institutional shareholders have played in the improvement of corporate governance within Japanese listed companies.

10-June-2015

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Japan Policy Brief: Greater Gender Equality for More Inclusive Growth

To achieve greater gender equality in employment and more inclusive growth, Japan needs to change the workplace culture and ensure that the tax and social security systems do not reduce work incentives for second earners in households.

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Japan Policy Brief: Better Corporate Practices for Higher Growth (Japanese version)

10-June-2015

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Japan Policy Brief: Better Corporate Practices for Higher Growth

The Japanese economy has for many years been characterised by a low corporate return on equity. Increasing returns requires better corporate governance that improves investment and the use of corporate resources, including cash holdings.

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Japan Policy Brief: Greater Gender Equality for More Inclusive Growth (Japanese version)

27-May-2015

English

Internet Literacy in Japan

The rise in Internet usage among young people has seen a corresponding increase in international concern regarding their online safety. In line with the Recommendation on the Protection of Children Online, the Japanese government has initiated efforts to develop improved indicators to measure Internet literacy among youth.

19-January-2015

English

Back to Work: Japan - Improving the Re-employment Prospects of Displaced Workers

Job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over the course of their working lives. Displaced workers may face long periods of unemployment and, even when they find new jobs, tend to be paid less and have fewer benefits than in the jobs they held prior to displacement. Helping displaced workers get back into good jobs quickly should be a key goal of labour market policy. This report is the second in a series of reports looking at how this challenge is being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It shows that Japanese employers and the government go to considerable lengths to avoid the displacement of regular workers while also providing considerable income and re-employment support to many of the workers whose jobs cannot be preserved. Challenges for labour market programmes include expanding labour market mobility between regular jobs, improving co-ordination between private and public re-employment assistance for displaced workers, and avoiding that job displacement pushes older workers to the margins of the labour market.

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