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• THE ECONOMY: HOW BAD WILL IT GET A SPECIAL REPORT BY WESTMINSTER

  - 2008-06-08

  NOTHING travels faster than bad news. Last week a report from the international Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD ripped into the British economy, branding it the equivalent of a basket case. It criticised the way the UK has been run for the past decade, saying the options left...

  Tags: Bank of England, Britain, food, job, Manufacturing, OECD, RBS, U.K., unemployment

• 2ND LD: Workers in G-8 nations want reduced gaps, achieved stability

  - 2008-05-12

  NIIGATA, Japan, May 11 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING WITH OUTCOME OF SUNDAY'S TALKS) Labor ministerial-level officials from the Group of Eight countries gathered in the city of Niigata on Sunday for a three-day meeting in which representatives of labor and employers' groups urged the governments to...

  Tags: Globalization, Government, Japan, job, OECD, Strategy, worker

• ED in 08 to the Candidates Campaigning in The Buckeye State: Tell Americans How Their Kids Will Compete For Future Jobs

  - 2008-02-22

  To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Elizabeth Snyder, +1-202-384-5330, or Krista Zaharias, +1--202-552-4557, both of ED in '08 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials from ED in 08 will be available in the Spin Room at the February 26th Democratic Presidential Debate at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio to discuss...

  Tags: education, job, OECD, Ohio, U.S.

• Labour Market Performance Differentials and Dynamics in EU-15 Countries and Regions*

  - 2007-07-01

  Abstract The aim of this paper is to contribute to empirical analysis of the differentials, dynamics and determinants of labour market performance in EU-15. One innovation of the paper reflects our decision not to use a single indicator of labour market performance, but to adopt three variables: employment rate, unemployment...

  Tags: coefficient, convergence, job, OECD, unemployment

• Impact of globalisation on workers is manageable: OECD

  - 2007-06-19

  PARIS AFP — The OECD on Tuesday urged governments to boost employee mobility and job protection to cushion workers against the effects of globalisation and competition from low-wage countries such as China and India. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, in a policy brief accompanying its 2007 Employment...

  Tags: job, OECD, worker

• U.S. editorial excerpts -4-

  - 2007-02-19

  NEW YORK, Feb. 15 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: FREEDOM AND LABOR (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Europe just got its best jobless report in a very long time. The bad news: In a decade when record numbers of people found work...

  Tags: Benefits, firing, France, Germany, hiring, job, OECD, U.S.

• The art of the possible; Economics focus.(The politics of economic reform)

  - 2007-02-17

  A new study picks over the delicate political economy of freeing markets NO ONE likes to lose a privilege, especially one that brings in money. So it should be no surprise when Italian taxi-drivers protest at proposals to deregulate their trade, French public-sector...

  Tags: FINANCE, job, OECD, worker

• Management Development in Russia: Evidence From Three Provincial Cities

  - 2007-01-01

  [Abstract] This article presents some results gathered as part of a longitudinal research project designed to examine the Russian President's Management Training Initiative RPMTI, a measure introduced by the Russian government in 1997 as a strategy designed to improve the performance of the Russian economy. The research is especially concerned...

  Tags: job, OECD, Russia, salary, training, U.K.

• Mature workers, training and using TLM frameworks

  - 2006-09-01

  Abstract Mature workers have been at the centre of policies aimed at encouraging higher workforce participation, longer working life and enhanced savings for retirement. Low mature age workforce participation rates reflect labour market withdrawal in the face of multiple barriers to participation for many. Their apparent voluntary joblessness conceals...

  Tags: Australia, education, Education, job, OECD, training, women, worker, workforce

• Income inequality shrinks Japan's middle class

  - 2006-07-24

  TOKYO -- Since he dropped out of college a few years ago, Takeshi Ito has bounced from job to job -- washing dishes, waiting tables, selling mobile phones. These days, he works for a temp agency, laboriously typing data into computers. Ito, 29, lives with his parents, trying to...

  Tags: Japan, job, OECD