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-quality childcare, early childhood and full-day primary education still need to expand. The vocational education system is very … successful in integrating young people well in the labour market. Strengthening general education within the successful … vocational education and training system could help ensure the capacity of graduates to adapt to technological change at higher …
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. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also … the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …
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, education as well as the role of labour market policies and institutions. …
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, Indonesia and South Africa) in a range of monetary (i.e. income) and non-monetary dimensions of people’s life (i.e. education …
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men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures …. Fighting stereotypes in education is necessary to improve women’s access to professions where they are under …
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This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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among the longest in the OECD are also creating challenges for work-life balances, child education, personal care and …-level policies improving access to health care and early-childhood education, state-level initiatives favouring workplace flexibility …
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens the skills-base. Vocational and tertiary education do not always … ensure that tertiary education provides the right skills. Beyond education, effective re-skilling and up-skilling programmes …
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policies. Some regional disparities are high and need to be reduced. High regional dispersion in education and job outcomes …
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