OECD employment outlook 2010: moving beyond the jobs crisis

The OECD Employment Outlook 2010 is OECD’s annual report on employment and labour markets in the OECD area and beyond. Opening with an editorial which analyses the immediate policy challenges and provides advice for OECD governments, and a first chapter that sets out the facts and figures related to recent employment developments and sets them in the broader economic context, this volume goes on to provide analysis in three specific policy areas: the jobs impact and policy response in emerging economies; institutional and policy determinants of labour market flows; and the quality of part-time work. The first section, ‘Moving beyond the jobs crisis’, examines the following questions: Why did unemployment rise so much more sharply in some countries than in others that were also hit hard by the global recession? Have governments taken effective measures to help workers weather the storm? What are the prospects for a job-rich recovery? Section two, ‘The global crisis in emerging economies: the jobs impact and policy response’, looks at: How the recent crisis affected emerging economies and their labour market outcomes? What is the role of employment and social policies to support the incomes of those in need? How can existing safety nets be best used to address increasing needs and what are the challenges they face? Section three, ‘Institutional and policy determinants of labour market flows’, examines: What determines cross-country differences in hiring and separation rates? Can policies enhance growth by removing barriers to labour reallocation across industries, firms and jobs? What are the effects of different policies on the likelihood and cost of losing a job? And what is their impact on wage premia and losses associated with different types of labour market transitions? The final section, ‘How good is part-time work?’, investigates: How part-time jobs compare to full-time jobs in terms of pay, advancement, job security, working-time conditions and stress? Is part-time work the way to increase labour supply in ageing OECD societies? What barriers prevent part-timers from moving into full-time jobs? The volume closes with a statistical annex which provides the latest available employment data. This book includes StatLinks, URLs under each graph and table linking to spreadsheets showing the underlying data.

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