OECD Employment Outlook 2009

This 2009 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides an annual assessment of labour market developments and prospects in member countries. This issue focuses on the jobs crisis in particular and looks at steps taken by governments to help workers and the unemployed. It recommends ways of preventing current high levels of unemployment becoming entrenched. The first chapter looks at the jobs crisis itself, analysing the implications for employment and social policy. The second chapt