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• 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

• Immigrants: a competitive advantage

  - 2008-04-01

  Highly skilled and educated immigrants in the workforce can provide developed countries with a sharp competitive advantage, according to "A Profile of Immigrant Populations in the 21st Century," recently published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD in Paris. The study was based on 2004 data from...

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• Canadians Deserve More Paid Vacation Time: Georgetti Calls for a National Minimum of Three Weeks Paid Vacation.

  - 2007-07-30

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jul 30, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- A new report released today by the Canadian Labour Congress confirms what most working people in this country have long suspected. Canadians give more of their waking hours to their employers than workers in most OECD countries....

  Tags: Canada, OECD, Ontario, worker

• 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...

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• News: UK pensions trail developed nations.

  - 2007-06-18

  Byline: Hannah Williams UK public pension provision is the worst in the developed world, ranking lower than Turkey and Greece, research has shown. The Organisation for Econ-omic Cooperation and Development OECD, an umbrella group uniting 30 leading governments, found the UK...

  Tags: Benefits, Government, Greece, OECD, pension, U.K., worker

• Saving the day; Pension prospects.(Stingy Britain's pension woes)

  - 2007-06-09

  Young workers will be poor when they retire unless they save more BRITAIN'S state-pension system is known to be tight-fisted. Just how stingy it is emerges from a report this week from the OECD: the promise made to today's young workers is the least...

  Tags: Benefits, Britain, OECD, pension, reform, worker

• Page1Chart.(productive life span)(Brief article)

  - 2007-05-05

  Data compiled by Britain's official statisticians show that strike rates in OECD countries can vary enormously from one year to the next. In Iceland, which tops the chart of working days lost per 1,000 employees in the ten years to 2005, no days at all were lost...

  Tags: Britain, OECD, worker

• 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

• The broom of Titoism: how developing nations are compensating for weak labor markets

  - 2007-01-01

  Yugoslav strongman Josip Broz Tim died on May 4, 1980, and his funeral was witnessed by more politicians and state delegations than any other in history. Even though Marshall Tito might be dead, his ideas are alive and well. In 1948, Tito made his mark by breaking ranks with...

  Tags: FINANCE, Mexico, OECD, Taxes, Turkey, worker

• Addressing the implications of global ageing

  - 2006-11-01

  Global ageing is not occurring in isolation, but is emerging in the context of globalization itself, a world increasingly dominated by the flow of human and economic capital across national boundaries. Indeed, a key stimulus to such capital flows is the emerging demographic imbalances arising from the differential movement of...

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