OECD Employment Outlook 2007 published

The OECD Employment Outlook 2007 was published on the 19th June. This year the Outlook has taken globalisation as the special theme to be analysed. According to the publication the overall impact of the globaliation has been positive. However, in many cases it has reduced the power of workers, especially low-skilled ones.

The OECD urges governments to resist protectionist responses but to adapt employment policies to help people to move easier from one job to another. Employment policies should be supported by education and training policies.

The report praises the flexicurity approach that has been developed especially in Denmark. There, the rather generous state aid for job-seekers is accompanied by intensive training and job-search programmes. More generally, innovative countries have been able to benefit from the change. New jobs in new areas have replaced the ones that have been moved to countries with lower wage and production costs.

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