By Andreas Schleicher. Does education really pay off? Has public spending on education been affected by the economic crisis? How are education and employment related?
You’ll find the answers to these and just about any other question you may have about the state of education in the world today in Education at a Glance 2015: OECD Indicators, published today. More...
01 décembre 2015
Education at a Glance 2015: Look and learn!
Two secrets concerning a value chain approach to corporate climate change risk-management
By Roel Nieuwenkamp. This coming week the world’s leaders will gather in Paris to discuss approaches to addressing climate change, kicking off the 21st annual meeting of countries which want to take action for the climate, otherwise known as COP 21. More...
“Ecological Footprint” leaving a trail at OECD
By Suzi Tart. Analytics data reveals that the most popular search term on the OECD website for 2015 is “BEPS”. This stands for “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting” and refers to the latest OECD tax project making a big splash the world over. More...
Do lower taxes encourage investment?
By Pierre Poret. Conventional wisdom holds that countries with lower taxes attract higher levels of foreign direct investment (FDI). At first glance, this intuitive assumption seems to be supported by the evidence. More...
The rise of the G20 and OECD’s role
By Noe van Hulst. With the eyes of the world on the G20 summit in Antalya, we are reminded how G20 has become a well-established ‘brand’ in the global governance landscape. More...
Simple Policy Lessons from Embracing “Complexity”
By Bill White. The dominant school of economic thought, prior to the crisis, essentially modelled the national economy as a totally understandable and changeless machine (DSGE models). More...
OECD Insights on COP21
Over the past year, OECD Insights has published a series of blogs from contributors inside and outside the Organisation on the issues being debated over the next two weeks at COP21 in Paris. More...
The importance of high-skill jobs for European regions
By Glenda Quintini. In 2011 about 10% of overall employment in the European Union (EU-27) was in high-skill jobs, defined as all jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) occupations plus all non-STEM jobs in high-tech sectors. This share has been rising steadily over the last decade, as the employment growth in these high-skill jobs strongly outpaced overall employment growth. While total employment grew by 8% in the period 2000-2011, high-skill employment grew by almost 20% during the same period. As such, high-skill job creation has contributed significantly to overall job creation in the European economy. More...
Why are the returns to skill lower for younger than for older workers?
By Glenda Quintini. An empirical regularity observed across all countries that participated in the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC, 2012) is that individuals with higher cognitive skills also tend to have higher wages. For policy makers, this carries an important message about the importance of further investing in skills. More...
Enhancing the non-cognitive skills of disconnected youth
By Glenda Quintini. Youth who have disconnected from the education system and are not working or planning to return to training are at high risk of marginalisation. Some of these young people are homeless, have disabilities, have been in foster care and/or are known to the justice system. More...
