Culture shock: COVID-19 and the cultural and creative sectors
Resources - Author: English / Year: 2020
The OECD Policy Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lays out how the cultural and creative sector is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies factors that make the effects long-lasting. It describes the fragility of the cultural and creative sector and the inadequacy of social protection schemes to offset...
Read MoreEngaging Employers in Apprenticeship Opportunities: Making it Happen Locally
Resources - Author: Angela Attrey, Jonathan Barr, Paul Comyn / Year: 2017
This joint OECD-ILO publication provides guidance on how local and regional governments can foster business-education partnerships in apprenticeship programmes and other types of work-based learning, drawing on case studies across nine countries. There has been increasing interest in apprenticeships which combine on the job training with classroom-based study, providing...
Read MoreEU Social Protection Systems Programme (EU-SPS)
Resources - Year: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
The EU Social Protection Systems Programme (EU-SPS) is a 4-year programme supporting ten developing partner country governments and national expert institutions in their efforts to develop inclusive and sustainable social protection systems in close co-ordination with other international partners. Link to...
Read MoreIncome Inequality and Labour Income Share in G20 Countries: Trends, impacts and causes
Resources - Year: 2015
The Government of Turkey has made inclusiveness one of the three priorities of its G20 Presidency. This builds upon the G20 Leaders’ commitment in 2014 to “…support development and inclusive growth, and help to reduce inequality and poverty.” Indeed, the inclusiveness of growth, and the related issues of...
Read MoreBasic Income as a Policy Option: technical background note illustrating costs and distributional implications for selected countries
Resources - Author: Herwig Immervoll, James Browne / Year: 2017
The concept of a Basic Income (BI), an unconditional transfer paid to each individual is not new. However, although many OECD countries have non-contributory, non-means tested benefits for certain groups (most commonly children or pensioners) no country has made a BI the central pillar of its social security system....
Read MoreBasic Income as a Policy Option: can it add up?
Resources - Year: 2017
Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that largely depend on income or employment status. A universal “no questions asked” public transfer would be simple and have the...
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