Over the past ten years economic growth in Asia has contributed to a reduction of poverty as well as fertility rates, and greater prosperity has contributed to gains in life expectancy. However, at present many workers still work in informal employment, frequently for long hours at little pay...

Lithuania has undergone major economic and social change since the early 1990s. Despite an exceptionally deep recession following the global financial crisis, impressive economic growth over the past two decades has narrowed income and productivity gaps relative to comparable countries in the...

The dataset contains the indicator for temporary employment that measures the strictness of regulation on the use of fixed-term and temporary work agency contracts. The OECD indicators of employment protection are synthetic indicators of the strictness of regulation on dismissals and the use of...