OECD employment outlook 2012.
This 30th edition of the OECD Employment Outlook examines the labour market performance of OECD countries as well as the prospects in the short term. Chapter 1 offers an overview of recent developments, focusing on how marginalised groups (youth, the low skilled, women, the chronically unemployed) h...
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- Table of Contents; The OECD Employment Outlook; Editorial: Achieving a Sustainable Recovery - What Can Labour Market Policy Contribute?; Chapter 1. Waiting for the Recovery: OECD Labour Markets in the Wake of; Key findings; Introduction; 1. Recent labour market developments and future prospects; The economic recovery has been particularly weak and uneven; Figure 1.1. A weak and uneven economic recovery; Unemployment remains persistently high; The employment gap remains substantial; Figure 1.2. Unemployment is projected to remain high in OECD countries
- Figure 1.3. The recovery is not strong enough to reduce the jobs gapEmployment outcomes continue to diverge across workforce groups; Figure 1.4. The recovery differs across socio-economic groups; Box 1.1. The share of youth at high risk of labour market marginalisation has increased; NEET rates among youth in OECD countries; 2. A growing marginalisation among the jobless?; The decline in aggregate demand has reduced the job-finding prospects of job seekers...; Figure 1.5. Evolution of unemployment-exit probabilities; ... resulting in increasing long-term and very long-term unemployment
- The increase in long-term unemployment could have important implications for the persistence of aggregate unemployment going forwardFigure 1.6. Evolution of unemployment by duration, 2007 Q1-2011 Q4; Figure 1.7. Unemployment is becoming more persistent; The risk of long-term unemployment has risen more for some workforce groups than for others; Figure 1.8. Youth and low skilled workers are at greater risk of long-term unemployment; Some job losers have become discouraged in their job search and left the labour force
- Figure 1.9. The number of persons marginally attached to the labour forcea has increased3. Has structural unemployment started to increase?; The NAIRU has increased in most countries but by a small amount relative to the total cyclical change in unemployment; Figure 1.10. Structural unemployment has increased in most countries, but so far the increase remains small; Matching frictions tended to increase in countries where the unemployment impact of the crisis was relatively large...; Figure 1.11. Beveridge curves in selected OECD countries
- ... but declined in others where the unemployment impact tended to be smallerFigure 1.12. Comparing actual and predicted job-finding and job-filling rates; Why may matching frictions have increased in some countries?; Hiring remains depressed for youth, low-skilled workers and in the construction sector; Box 1.2. Active labour market policies have a crucial role to play in containing the risk of rising structural unemployment; The responsiveness of ALMPs spending to cyclical changes in unemployment tends to be very low
- Figure 1.13. The evolution of hires by worker group and sector since the start of the crisis
