Employment Outlook 2009

OECD Employment Outlook 2008

Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic discrimination in many countries. Indirect evidence shows that on average at least 8% of the gender employment gap and a larger proportion of the gender wage gap can be attributed to discrimination. Virtually all O...

OECD Employment Outlook

Outlook Toward Equity and Employment An Employment - Centered Social Policy ◆

Robert Haveman is John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs. On leave for the academic year 1996-97 at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Professor Haveman was engaged in research on issues of human capital utilization and the determinants of children's attainments. Th...

Employment based health benefits: trends and outlook.

Dis 2009 Concluding Talk: Outlook and Perspective

Let me make clear from the start that I did not try to make a summary of the Workshop. The Convenors of the different working groups have presented their resumes just before my talk. Thus I felt free to leave aside many valuable contributions only because they do not fit in my chosen framework. For example, all reviews presented at the Workshop on the results obtained at hadron colliders or of ...