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. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … population groups with the elderly, people with disabilities, lone parents, the low-educated and the unemployed being …
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Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the...
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This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of OECD countries for the period 2000-10. We use a set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the OECD characterising the main supply-side, demand-side, and public management,...
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high overall participation rate, due to a high frequency of part-time employment, a low effective retirement age and a high … Netherlands (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/netherlands …
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Strong and adequate skills are essential to support workers’ productivity and to ensure robust employment outcomes … inclusive. The Netherlands performs well in terms of competences of a large part of the population. Moreover, the country has …
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-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts … protection on permanent employment contracts and through a more targeted approach to activation policies for disadvantaged groups … jobs. This Working Paper relates to the 2018 OECD Economic Survey of the Netherlands 2018 (www …
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Employment has risen by more and unemployment has risen less than expected, given the path of output. Nevertheless … safety net, which needs to promote employment, while protecting the most vulnerable. The reformed welfare system, Universal … Credit, and the employment programme for disadvantaged workers, Work Programme, will generally improve work incentives and …
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that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and …
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setting institutions are found to be robust policy determinants of the aggregate employment and unemployment rates. Looking … beyond the overall employment impact, outcomes for vulnerable groups such as the low educated, the youth and the elderly tend … competition-friendly product market regulations are also found to impact aggregate employment rates positively and significantly …
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