Editorial: Globalisation: Coping with the Challenge
Introduction: Short-Term Employment Prospects
-Economic Outlook to the Year 2006
-Employment and Unemployment
-Compensation and Labour Costs
Chapter 1. Trade Adjustment Costs in OECD Labour Markets: A Mountain or a Molehill?
Chapter 2. How Persistent are Regional Disparities in Employment? The Role of Geographic Mobility
Chapter 3. Increasing Financial Incentives to Work: The Role of In-Work Benefits
Chapter 4. Labour Market Programmes and Activation Strategies: Evaluating the Impacts
Chapter 5. Public Employment Services: Managing Performance
Statistical Annex
-Standardised Unemployment Rates
-Employment/Population Ratios (by sex, age)
-Labour Force Participation Rates (by sex, age)
-Unemployment Rates (by sex, age)
-Incidence and Composition of Part-Time Employment
-Average Annual Hours Actually worked Per Person in Employment
-Incidence of Long-Term Unemployment
-Public Expenditure and Participant Inflows in Labour Market Programmes in OECD Countries