Our society’s dependence on chemicals is a comparatively recent phenomenon. The chemical industry today is a US$1.55 trillion global industry, nearly four times as big as it was just 30 years ago. World-wide, the industry employs some 12 million people. The chemical industry in OECD Member countries accounts for 76 per cent of world-wide production. Chemicals and related products represent 14 p...

The OECD Going Digital Measurement Roadmap is an important tool to align countries’ priority areas for measuring digital transformation using common methodologies and approaches. It was developed in partnership with all relevant statistical bodies 2019 amended 2022. identifies ten actions enhance the capacity of countries monitor its impacts. reflects a recognition that national systems need ad...

Unemployment in the OECD: Models and Mysteries This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the “natural rate of unemployment” has been driven up mainly by wage push factors. Panel data on twenty-two OECD countries are used to investigate the explanatory power of these models over the past two decades. Our estimates reveal that coefficients on key variab...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a reliable source of international data on various areas of economic and social well-being, including health care. It collects data for indicators of quality of care for more than 30 countries. These indicators are used in this report to provide an in-depth look at Canada’s health system compared with health systems in other O...