Unemployment Benefits and Labour Market in OECD and Russia

Abstract

The OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of key labour market developments and prospects in OECD member countries. Each edition also contains several chapters focusing on specific aspects of how labour markets function and the implications for policy in order to promote more and better jobs. This year's chapters cover recent wage developments, drivers of the decline in the labour share, the impact of collective bargaining on labour market performance, policies to smooth the transition back into employment for workers who lost their job due to economic change, causes and consequences of recent trends in unemployment benefit coverage, and an investigation of the reasons why the gender gap in labour income increases over the working life.The 2018 OECD Employment Outlook is the joint work of staff of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. The staff of the Economics Department and Statistics and Data Directorate contributed to the preparation of Chapter 2. The whole Outlook has also greatly benefited from comments from other OECD directorates and contributions from national government delegates. However, its assessments of each country's labour market prospects do not necessarily correspond to those made by the national authorities concerned.

Industrial Robots and the Employment Quality of Migrant Workers in the Manufacturing Industry

“…Researchers often look at the elements that affect employment quality from three angles: at the macro level, at the workplace level, and from the perspective of the individual labor practitioners [25][26][27]. From a macro viewpoint, academics primarily examine how economic globalization, the privatization of emerging nations, and labor market features directly affect job quality [28,29]. One group of researchers primarily examined two elements of the effect of economic globalization on the quality of employment of people in different countries: decreasing living expenses and increasing labor market unpredictability [30].…”