List of Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other. You can find the full list of working papers here.

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• No.74. Main Features of the Public Employment Service in the Czech Republic
  Daniela Kalužná (December 2008)
  
  
• No. 73. Long Time-Series for Public Expenditure on Labour Market Programmes
  David Grubb and Agnès Puymoyen (November 2008)
  
  
• No. 72. Main Features of the Public Employment Service in the Slovak republic
  Daniela Kaluzna (November 2008)
  
  
• No. 71. Socio-economic Differences in Mortality: Implications for Pensions Policy
  Edward R. Whitehouse and Asghar Zaidi  (November 2008)
  
  
• No. 68. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Wages and Working Conditions
  Elena Arnal and Alexander Hijzen (October 2008)
  
  
• No. 67. The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain
  Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen P. Jenkins (October 2008)
  
  
• No. 66. Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries
  John P. Martin and Edward Whitehouse (July 2008)
  
  
• No. 65. The Joint Distribution of Household Income and Wealth: Evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study
  Markus Jantti, Eva Sierminska and Tim Smeeding (May 2008)
  
  
• No. 64 A Review of Studies on the Distributional Impact of Consumption Taxes in OECD Countries
  Neil Warren (June 2008)
  
  
• No. 63. Globalisation and Labour Markets: Policy issues Arising from the Emergence of China and India
  David T. Coe (October 2007)
  
  
• No. 61. Addressing Labour Market Duality in Korea
  David Grubb, Jae-Kap Lee and Peter Tergeist (October 2007)
  
  
• No. 60. Life-Expectancy Risk and Pensions: Who Bears the Burden?
  Edward Whitehouse (October 2007)
  
  
• No. 59. Audit du service public de l'emploi au Luxembourg
  David Grubb (October 2007)
  
  
• No. 58. Trends in International Migration Flows and Stocks, 1975-2005
  B. Lindsay Lowell (September 2007)
  
  
• No. 57. Unauthorized Migrants in the United States: Estimates, Methods, and Characteristics
  Jeffrey Passel (September 2007)
  
  
• No. 56. La politique migratoire française à un tournant
  Martine Durand and Georges Lemaître (September 2007)
  
  
• No.55. The Unification of the Social Insurance Contribution Collection System in Korea
  Sinchul Jang (August 2007)
  
  
• No.54. Assessing the Impact of Labour Market Policies on Productivity: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
  Andrea Bassanini and Danielle Venn (June 2007)
  
  
• No. 53. Pension Reform in China: Progress and Prospects
  Felix Salditt, Peter Whiteford and Willem Adema (June 2007)
  
  
• No. 52. Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage: Mobility or Immobility across Generations? A Review of the Evidence for OECD Countries
  Anna Cristina d'Addio (March 2007)
  
  
• No. 51. What Works Best in Reducing Child Poverty: a Benefit or Work Strategy?
  Peter Whiteford and Willem Adema (March 2007)
  
  
• No. 50. The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Denmark
  Thomas Liebig (March 2007)
  
  
• No. 49. The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Australia
  Thomas Liebig  (February 2007)
  
  
• No. 48. The Integration of Immigrants into the Labour Market: the Case of Sweden
  Georges Lemaître (February 2007)
  
  
• No. 47. The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Germany
  Thomas Liebig (February 2007)
  
  
• No. 46. Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-wage Employment
  Herwig Immervoll (January 2007)
  
  
• No. 45. Publicly-provided Services and the Distribution of Resources
  Francois Marical, Marco Mira d'Ercole, Maria Vaalavuo and Gerlinde Verbist (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 44. The Turkish Pension System: Further Reforms to Help Solve the Informality Problem
  Anne-Marie Brook and Edward Whitehouse (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 43. The Role of Derived Rights for Old-age Income Security of Women
  Jongkyun Choi (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 42. Activation Strategies and the Performance of Employment Services in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
  Peter Tergeist and David Grubb (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 41. Is Training more Frequent when the Wage Premium is smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel
  Andrea Bassanini and Giorgio Brunello (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 40. Neutral or Fair? Actuarial Concepts and Pension-system Design
  Edward Whitehouse and Monika Queisser (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 39. Starting Well or Losing their Way? The Position of Youth in the Labour Market in OECD Countries
  Glenda Quintini and Sébastien Martin (December 2006)
  
  
• No. 38. Social Assistance Policy Development and the Provision of a Decent Level of Income in Selected OECD Countries
  Willem Adema (August 2006)
  
  
• No. 37. Measures of Material Deprivation in OECD Countries
  Romina Boarini and Marco Mira d'Ercole (August 2006)
  
  
• No. 36. From inactivity to work: The role of active labour market policies
  Stéphane Carcillo and David Grubb (June 2006)
  
  
• No. 35. Employment Patterns in OECD Countries: Reassessing the Role of Policies and Institutions
  + Base de données (Fichiers Stata zippés, 115Kb)
  Andrea Bassanini and Romain Duval (June 2006)
  
  
• No. 34. An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries
  Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland (June 2006)
  
  
• No. 33. Alternative Measures of Well-Being
  Romina Boarini, Asa Johansson and Marco Mira d'Ercole (Feb. 2006)
  
  
• No. 32. Social Disadvantage and Education Experiences
  Stephen Machin (March 2006)
  
  
• No. 31. Can Parents Afford To Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives
  Herwig Immervoll and David Barber (Dec. 2005)
  
  
• No. 30. Labour Protection in China: Challenges facing Labour Offices and Social Insurance
  Anders Reutersward (Nov. 2005)
  
  
• No. 29. Net Social Expenditure, 2005 Edition - More comprehensive measures of social support + 
  a selection of charts & tables
  Willem Adema and Maxime Ladaique (2005)
  
  
• No. 28. Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis
  Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez (Sept. 2005)
  
  
• No. 27. Trends and Determinants of Fertility Rates: The Role of Policies
  Anna Cristina d'Addio and Marco Mira d'Ercole (Nov. 2005)
  
  
• No. 26. The "Enabling State?" from Public to Private Responsibility for Social Protection: Pathways and Pitfalls
  Neil Gilbert (Sept. 2005)
  
  
• No. 25. Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in Countries: A New Perspective
  Jean-Christophe Dumont and Georges Lemaître (June 2005)
  
  
• No. 24. Taxation, Ethnic Ties and the Location Choice of High-Skilled Immigrants
  Thomas Liebig and Alfonso Sousa-Poza (July 2005)
  
  
• No. 23. Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure
  Mark Pearson and John P. Martin (March 2005)
  
  
• No. 22. Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s
  Michael Förster and Marco Mira d'Ercole (March 2005)
  
  
• No. 21. Design Choices in Market Competition for Employment Services for the Long-Term Unemployed
  Ludo Struyven (Dec. 2004)
  
  
• No. 20. Benefit Coverage Rates and Household Typologies: Scope and Limitations of Tax-Benefit Indicators
  Herwig Immervoll, Pascal Marianna and Marco Mira D’Ercole (Dec. 2004)
  
  
• No. 19. Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU: A Micro-Level Analysis of Levels, Distributions and Driving Factors
  Herwig Immervoll (Dec. 2004)
  
  
• No. 18. Indicators of Unemployment and Low-Wage Traps + (Annexes 1 & 2 in separate document)
  Giuseppe Carone, Herwig Immervoll, Dominique Paturot and Aino Salomäki (March 2004)
  
  
• No. 17. Take-up of Welfare Benefits in OECD countries: A Review of the Evidence
  Virginia Hernanz, Franck Malherbet and Michele Pellizzari (March 2004)
  
  
• No. 16. The Swedish Activity Guarantee
  Anders Forslund, Daniela Froberg and Linus Lindqvist (Jan. 2004)
  
  
• No. 15. Low Fertility Rates in OECD Countries: Facts and Policy Responses
  Joëlle E. Sleebos (Oct. 2003)
  
  
• No. 14. National versus Regional Financing and Management of Unemployment and Related Benefits
  David Gray (Sept. 2003)
  
  
• No. 13. The Competitive Market for Employment Services in the Netherlands
  Ludo Struyven and Geert Steurs (Sept. 2003)
  
  
• No. 12. Towards Sustainable Development: the Role of Social Protection
  Marco Mira d'Ercole adn Andrea Salvini (Aug. 2003)
  
  
• No. 11. Individual Choice in Social Protection: The Case of Swiss Pensions
  Monika Queisser and Edward Whitehouse (Aug. 2003)
  
  
• No. 10. Improving Workers’ Skills: Analytical Evidence and the Role of the Social Partners
  Wooseok Ok and Peter Tergeist (July 2003)
  
  
• No. 9. The Value of Pension Entitlements: A Model of Nine OECD Countries
  Edward Whitehouse (June 2003)
  
  
• No. 8. Financial Resources and Retirement in Nine OECD Countries: The Role of the Tax System
  Gordon Keenay and Edward Whitehouse (June 2003)
  
  
• No. 7. The Impact of Parental Leave on Maternal Return to Work after Childbirth in the United States
  Sandra L. Hofferth and Sally C. Curtin (May 2003)
  
  
• No. 6. Social Policies, Family Types and Child Outcomes in Selected OECD Countries
  Sheila B. Kamerman, Michelle Neuman, Jane Waldfogel and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (May 2003)
  
  
• No. 5. Child Labour in South Asia
  Eric V. Edmonds (May 2003)
  
  
• No. 4. Child Labour in Africa
  Sonia Bhalotra (Apr. 2003)
  
  
• No. 3. Le Travail des Enfants en Amérique Latine
  Pierre-Emmanuel Couralet (Apr. 2003)
  
  
• No. 2. The Determinants of Child Labour: Theory and Evidence
  Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern
  
  
• No. 1. Career Interruptions due to Parental Leave: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden
  Elina Pylkkänen and Nina Smith (March 2003)
  
  

For older papers, please see the now-retired series, Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers.

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