a combination of barriers related to work availability, readiness and incentives. It suggests a number of avenues for … support provided by employment, health and education services; iii) place a greater emphasis on preventive policies (equal …

touching on education, the labour market and the business environment. Areas of particular weakness to be tackled include the … high number of poorly qualified long-term unemployed, skills mismatches and a high school drop-out rate, and insufficient …

recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s unpaid care work. This paper presents new analysis of time use data and unpaid … care work from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Peru and South Africa as well as comparisons with OECD countries. It provides … on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Specifically, the recommendations focus on how to recognise unpaid care work by …

-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts …. Regulatory policies should aim at raising labour market mobility to improve the matching of skills to jobs by easing the …. Finally, measures should improve the skills of individuals in vulnerable groups to enhance their opportunities to find better …

ageing related contraction of the labour force.). This Working Paper relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of the …

effects, transitions from work to unemployment or inactivity (or vice versa) are considered exogenously in this literature …

low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First … Spanish youth labour market. This implies in particular reforms to prevent youth from dropping out of education at a very … early stage and to improve the school to work transition of young people. Key issues are to better match skills acquired in …