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No. 308 | 27 Apr 2024 |
Offshoring, Reshoring, and the Evolving Geography of Jobs
While the second half of the 20th century was characterised by a growing integration of the global economy, in recent years there have been growing calls for protectionism and reshoring. At the same time, COVID-19 resulted in higher levels of remote... |
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No. 307 | 18 Apr 2024 |
Geographic inequalities in accessibility of essential services
People’s ability to access essential services is key to their labour market and social inclusion. An important dimension of accessibility is physical accessibility, but little cross-country evidence exists on how close people live to the services... |
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No. 306 | 19 Mar 2024 |
Faces of joblessness in Switzerland
Open unemployment and joblessness in Switzerland are low compared to OECD standards. Yet a comparatively high proportion of working-age individuals remain weakly attached to the labour market, with unstable jobs, or with limited working hours. As an... |
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No. 305 | 11 Mar 2024 |
An integrated approach to service delivery for people with multiple and complex needs
<img src="https://assets.oecdcode.org/ilibraryres/img/eufunded-banner3.png" class="img-responsive" style="width:80%; padding-bottom:5px;" alt="EU Funded Note"/>Increasingly, countries are integrating personalised public services to enhance access to,... |
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No. 304 | 11 Mar 2024 |
Gender equality and economic growth
Despite women’s increased participation in the labour market significantly contributing to past economic growth, persistent gender gaps across OECD labour markets hinder full realization of the potential gains of women’s economic participation. This... |
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No. 303 | 07 Feb 2024 |
Developing skills for digital government
<img src="https://assets.oecdcode.org/ilibraryres/img/DG-Reform_banner-Kappa_en.png" class="img-responsive" style="adding-bottom:5px;" alt="EU Funded Note"/>Digital technologies are having a profound impact on economies, labour markets and societies.... |
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No. 302 | 15 Dec 2023 |
Quality matters
In recent years, provision of relevant up-skilling and re-skilling opportunities for adults has become a necessity due to global megatrends affecting labour markets. As a result, countries are looking to strengthen these opportunities throughout the... |
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No. 301 | 22 Nov 2023 |
Raising the bar: Designing and implementing innovative contracted-out employment services in OECD countries
The paper builds on work conducted in the project “Reforming the Swedish Public Employment Service”, which was carried out with funding from the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and was implemented by the OECD in cooperation with... |
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No. 300 | 21 Nov 2023 |
Innovative approaches to tackle long-term unemployment
Long-term unemployment remains a structural challenge for most OECD countries. Despite major efforts to address this issue, the efficiency and effectiveness of many existing active labour market policies are limited for jobseekers who face major... |
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No. 299 | 21 Sept 2023 |
Fertility, employment and family policy
This paper analyses the association of labour market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 and 2019 in 26 OECD countries. While the average age of mothers at birth of their children continued to increase over the entire... |
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No. 298 | 18 Sept 2023 |
Minimum wages in a dual labour market
This paper provides an assessment of the 2019 minimum-wage hike in Spain, which increased the minimum wage by 22% and directly concerned 7% of dependent employees. The assessment is based on an individual-level analysis that follows the outcomes of... |
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No. 297 | 02 Aug 2023 |
The effects of the EU Fit for 55 package on labour markets and the demand for skills
This paper quantifies changes in employment and the demand for skills in the European Union following the implementation of Fit for 55 policies. Between 2019 and 2030, the economy is projected to grow by 1.3% in the Fit for 55 scenario (3% in a... |
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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. 295 | 06 Jul 2023 |
Labour and social policies for the green transition
This study sets out a conceptual framework to analyse the impact of climate change and greenhouse gases mitigation efforts on the labour market, migration flows and people’s health, as well as the most important policy levers that can cushion... |
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No. 294 | 14 Jun 2023 |
The demand for language skills in the European labour market
This paper investigates the demand for language skills using data on online job vacancies in 27 European Union member countries and the United Kingdom in 2021. Evidence indicates that although Europe remains a linguistically diverse labour market,... |
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No. 293 | 13 Jun 2023 |
The OECD Skills Profiling Tool: A new instrument to improve career decisions
This paper documents the development and piloting of the OECD Skills Profiling Tool. The OECD Skills Profiling Tool assesses three types of skills: occupation-specific skills; foundational skills (literacy, numeracy and digital skills); and a set of... |
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No. 292 | 24 Apr 2023 |
Measuring skill gaps in firms: the PIAAC Employer Module
This paper introduces the Employer Module of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), a new OECD survey designed to measure the imbalance between the supply of and demand for the skills needed in the workplace (skill gaps), and how this relates to... |
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No. 291 | 30 Mar 2023 |
Not lost in translation
The paper discusses the implications of recent advances in artificial intelligence for knowledge workers, focusing on possible complementarities and substitution between machine translation tools and language professionals. The emergence of machine... |
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No. 290 | 28 Mar 2023 |
Defining and classifying AI in the workplace
This document serves both as a conceptual and practical guide for defining and classifying AI, in order to help stakeholders analyse and understand its impact on the workplace. It first discusses how AI can be defined and provides a selection of AI... |
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No. 289 | 27 Mar 2023 |
The impact of AI on the workplace: Evidence from OECD case studies of AI implementation
How artificial intelligence (AI) will impact workplaces is a central question for the future of work, with potentially significant implications for jobs, productivity, and worker well-being. Yet, knowledge gaps remain in terms of how firms, workers,... |
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Offshoring, Reshoring, and the Evolving Geography of Jobs
Stijn Broecke
27 Apr 2024
While the second half of the 20th century was characterised by a growing integration of the global economy, in recent years there have been growing calls for protectionism and reshoring. At the same time, COVID-19 resulted in higher levels of remote...
Geographic inequalities in accessibility of essential services
Vanda Almeida, Claire Hoffmann, Sebastian Königs, Ana Moreno Monroy, Mauricio Salazar-Lozada and Javier Terrero-Dávila
18 Apr 2024
People’s ability to access essential services is key to their labour market and social inclusion. An important dimension of accessibility is physical accessibility, but little cross-country evidence exists on how close people live to the services...
Faces of joblessness in Switzerland
Alexandre Georgieff
19 Mar 2024
Open unemployment and joblessness in Switzerland are low compared to OECD standards. Yet a comparatively high proportion of working-age individuals remain weakly attached to the labour market, with unstable jobs, or with limited working hours. As an...
An integrated approach to service delivery for people with multiple and complex needs
Dorothy Adams and Hlodver Hakonarson
11 Mar 2024
<img src="https://assets.oecdcode.org/ilibraryres/img/eufunded-banner3.png" class="img-responsive" style="width:80%; padding-bottom:5px;" alt="EU Funded Note"/>Increasingly, countries are integrating personalised public services to enhance access to,...
Gender equality and economic growth
Jonas Fluchtmann, Mark Keese and Willem Adema
11 Mar 2024
Despite women’s increased participation in the labour market significantly contributing to past economic growth, persistent gender gaps across OECD labour markets hinder full realization of the potential gains of women’s economic participation. This...
Developing skills for digital government
Magdalena Burtscher, Stefano Piano and Benjamin Welby
07 Feb 2024
<img src="https://assets.oecdcode.org/ilibraryres/img/DG-Reform_banner-Kappa_en.png" class="img-responsive" style="adding-bottom:5px;" alt="EU Funded Note"/>Digital technologies are having a profound impact on economies, labour markets and societies....
Quality matters
Ricardo Espinoza and Nerea Martinez-Yarza
15 Dec 2023
In recent years, provision of relevant up-skilling and re-skilling opportunities for adults has become a necessity due to global megatrends affecting labour markets. As a result, countries are looking to strengthen these opportunities throughout the...
Raising the bar: Designing and implementing innovative contracted-out employment services in OECD countries
Matija Vodopivec
22 Nov 2023
The paper builds on work conducted in the project “Reforming the Swedish Public Employment Service”, which was carried out with funding from the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and was implemented by the OECD in cooperation with...
Innovative approaches to tackle long-term unemployment
Sofia Dromundo, Marius Lüske and Michele Tuccio
21 Nov 2023
Long-term unemployment remains a structural challenge for most OECD countries. Despite major efforts to address this issue, the efficiency and effectiveness of many existing active labour market policies are limited for jobseekers who face major...
Fertility, employment and family policy
Jonas Fluchtmann, Violetta van Veen and Willem Adema
21 Sept 2023
This paper analyses the association of labour market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 and 2019 in 26 OECD countries. While the average age of mothers at birth of their children continued to increase over the entire...
Minimum wages in a dual labour market
Alexander Hijzen, Mateo Montenegro and Ana Sofia Pessoa
18 Sept 2023
This paper provides an assessment of the 2019 minimum-wage hike in Spain, which increased the minimum wage by 22% and directly concerned 7% of dependent employees. The assessment is based on an individual-level analysis that follows the outcomes of...
The effects of the EU Fit for 55 package on labour markets and the demand for skills
Francesca Borgonovi, Elisa Lanzi, Helke Seitz, Ruben Bibas, Jean Fouré, Hubert Plisiecki and Laura Atarody
02 Aug 2023
This paper quantifies changes in employment and the demand for skills in the European Union following the implementation of Fit for 55 policies. Between 2019 and 2030, the economy is projected to grow by 1.3% in the Fit for 55 scenario (3% in a...
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...
Labour and social policies for the green transition
Mark Keese and Luca Marcolin
06 Jul 2023
This study sets out a conceptual framework to analyse the impact of climate change and greenhouse gases mitigation efforts on the labour market, migration flows and people’s health, as well as the most important policy levers that can cushion...
The demand for language skills in the European labour market
Gabriele Marconi, Loris Vergolini and Francesca Borgonovi
14 Jun 2023
This paper investigates the demand for language skills using data on online job vacancies in 27 European Union member countries and the United Kingdom in 2021. Evidence indicates that although Europe remains a linguistically diverse labour market,...
The OECD Skills Profiling Tool: A new instrument to improve career decisions
Michele Tuccio, Katharine Mullock, Patricia Navarro-Palau and Erika Xiomara Chaparro Perez
13 Jun 2023
This paper documents the development and piloting of the OECD Skills Profiling Tool. The OECD Skills Profiling Tool assesses three types of skills: occupation-specific skills; foundational skills (literacy, numeracy and digital skills); and a set of...
Measuring skill gaps in firms: the PIAAC Employer Module
Luca Marcolin and Glenda Quintini
24 Apr 2023
This paper introduces the Employer Module of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), a new OECD survey designed to measure the imbalance between the supply of and demand for the skills needed in the workplace (skill gaps), and how this relates to...
Not lost in translation
Francesca Borgonovi, Justine Hervé and Helke Seitz
30 Mar 2023
The paper discusses the implications of recent advances in artificial intelligence for knowledge workers, focusing on possible complementarities and substitution between machine translation tools and language professionals. The emergence of machine...
Defining and classifying AI in the workplace
Marguerita Lane and Morgan Williams
28 Mar 2023
This document serves both as a conceptual and practical guide for defining and classifying AI, in order to help stakeholders analyse and understand its impact on the workplace. It first discusses how AI can be defined and provides a selection of AI...
The impact of AI on the workplace: Evidence from OECD case studies of AI implementation
Anna Milanez
27 Mar 2023
How artificial intelligence (AI) will impact workplaces is a central question for the future of work, with potentially significant implications for jobs, productivity, and worker well-being. Yet, knowledge gaps remain in terms of how firms, workers,...