Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers Vol 2 Australia Luxembourg Spain and the United Kingdom written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This report explores possible factors behind this paradox.

Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It ...

Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers Vol 2 Australia Luxembourg Spain and the United Kingdom written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This report explores possible factors behind this paradox.

Download or read book Mental Health and Work United Kingdom written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the United Kingdom looks at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges are being tackled.

Download or read book Handbook of Work Disability written by Patrick Loisel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book addresses the developing field of Work Disability Prevention. Work disability does not only involve occupational disorders originating from the work or at the workplace, but addresses work absenteeism originating from any disorder or accident. This topic has become of primary importance due to the huge compensation costs and health issues involved. For employers it is a unique burden and in many countries compensation is not even linked to the cause of the disorder. In the past twenty years, studies have accumulated which emphasize the social causes of work disability. Governments and NGOs such as the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have produced alarming reports on the extent of this problem for developed and developing countries. However, no comprehensive book is presently available to help them address this emerging field where new knowledge should induce new ways of management.​

Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers Canada Opportunities for Collaboration written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sickness and disability policy reform has been a priority for OECD countries wanting to improve employment and social outcomes in this domain. The recent recession and corresponding fall in labour demand is expected to hit marginalised workers ...

Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers Sweden Will the Recent Reforms Make It written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sickness and disability is a key economic policy concern for many OECD countries. Medical conditions, or problems labelled as such by societies and policy systems, are proving an increasing obstacle to raising labour force participation and keeping ...

Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers Vol 3 Denmark Finland Ireland and the Netherlands written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third report in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work looks specifically at the cases of Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands, and highlights the roles of institutions and policies.

Download or read book OECD Employment Outlook 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2008 edition of OECD's annual report on labour markets brings the reader detailed information on recent labour market developments, as well as in-depth analysis of the effects of various policy measures and prospects through 2009.

Download or read book OECD Employment Outlook 2009 Tackling the Jobs Crisis written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's annual report on employment markets and prospects. This 2009 edition includes chapters on how the crisis has effected employment, job and worker flows, poverty, and pathways onto and off of disability benefits.

Download or read book Mental Health and Work Australia written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on Australia is the ninth and last in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries.

Download or read book Sickness Disability and Work Breaking the Barriers Vol 1 Norway Poland and Switzerland written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first report in a new OECD series on sickness, disability and work explores the possible factors behind this paradox. It looks specifically at the cases of Norway, Poland and Switzerland, and highlights the role of institutions and policies. A range of reform recommendations is put forward.

Download or read book Too Sick to Work written by Stamatia Devetzi and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that European welfare states are struggling to meet new social risks during a process of adaptation to a post-industrial setting has been an acknowledged theory in welfare state research for some time. The authors of this remarkable book have chosen to study a powerful indicator of how this trend might affect legal protection and access to justice for individuals: reforms in social security systems as they apply to cases of reduced earnings capacity. While previously the notion of social protection made welfare state inhabitants feel that the risk of loss of income due to physical or psychological hindrances was minimal, this sense of security can no longer be taken for granted. This book presents in-depth analyses, by nine leading scholars in social security law, of recent reforms in the field of incapacity benefits in four European countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The authors emphasize how recent reforms in the field of social security have been transformed into legal provisions, how the gate-keeping function is implemented in the legislation of the different countries, and to what extent the reforms have affected the legal position of the individuals concerned. They find that ever-tightening requirements designed to reduce benefit dependency, in combination with policies emphasizing individual responsibilities rather than individual rights, cause increased social risks for exposed groups. Among the specific aspects covered are the following: Measuring the reduction of earnings capacity; rights and obligations attached to reintegration into the labour market; work capability assessment procedures; "rehabilitation chains" with fixed time limits; the real and increased risk of poverty faced by long-term incapacitated persons; constitutional concerns raised by increased dependency on means-tested benefits; conditionality of benefits on work-related activities, participation in training programmes, or active job searching; and sanctions that can be applied if the claimant fails to comply with activation measures. All the country chapters provide thorough surveys of recent reforms, as well as analyses of their different weaknesses and strengths. The European dimension is explored with particular reference to anti-discrimination legislation, health and safety law as well as the Open Method of Coordination. As a systematic analysis of the current reforms relating to reduced earnings capacity, this book will attract a wide readership among lawyers and policymakers for its thorough coverage of the current landscape and the far-reaching implications it suggests. The book's systematic comparative method sheds a bright light on the challenges faced by post-industrial European welfare states, and its crystallization of the legal strategies behind the individual legal measures and reforms deepens our understanding of the institutions of social security and our awareness of the rights and obligations of exposed individuals.

Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys United States 2007 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of OECD's periodic survey of the US economy assesses recent economic developments and examines challenges the US faces including employment limits that are slowing economic growth, fiscal sustainability, household debt, improving ...

Download or read book Jobs for Youth Des emplois pour les jeunes United Kingdom 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains - for the UK - a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the existing measures to improve the transition from school-to-work, and a set of policy recommendations.

Download or read book Employment and Work written by Susanne M. Bruyère and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores issues facing people with disabilities in employment and the work environment.

Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys United Kingdom 2007 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 edition of OECD's periodic economic survey of the British economy finds that the UK has embraced globalisation and has been rewarded with strong growth and performance, but that the near-term outlook is more uncertain, given recent ...