Event: AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity & Skills
Ukraine’s response to the displacement crisis
Rising autism diagnoses in childhood
Building people-centred digital health systems
Living with cardiovascular diseases
Event: Gender and socio-economic gaps in patient-reported measures
OECD Skills Summit 2026: Issues paper
Learning pathways into healthcare occupations
The real wage recovery is slowing down
The OECD wage bulletin
Wages are still rising in real terms, but growth is weaker than a year ago in most OECD countries. On average, annual real wages grew by 1.8% in Q3 2025, half the rate seen in Q3 2024. In half of OECD countries, real wages are still below early 2021 levels.
The wages of the lowest-paid workers have also continued to increase, with average real minimum wage growth in 2025 at 3.6%. Minimum wages have risen faster than median wages since 2021, which has reduced the risk of in-work poverty for minimum wage earners.
OECD International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills
30 March - 1 April 2026, virtual event
How will artificial intelligence (AI) reshape productivity, transform skills, and redefine opportunities and risks for workers?
Across multiple live sessions, leading voices from policy, business, academia and civil society will explore the impact of AI on employment, skills, productivity and innovation, and how public policy can respond. From the rise of Agentic AI to the governance of algorithmic management, we will discuss AI’s impact on productivity, competition and innovation, as well as its potential to expand opportunity, including for neurodivergent learners, among many other topics.
Ukraine’s strategic response to the displacement crisis
Return, reintegrate, reconnect
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has driven one of the fastest and largest displacement crises in recent history. About a quarter of Ukrainians were forced to flee their homes, seeking refuge in other parts of Ukraine or abroad.
Our new analysis brings together the latest evidence on returns, reintegration and diaspora engagement, and looks at what it will take to enable safe, sustainable returns, when conditions allow.
Policy responses to rising autism diagnoses in childhood
Across the spectrum
Autism diagnoses have risen across many countries, with health, education and social protection systems working hard to keep up. Most OECD countries have seen average annual increases of 6-10% over a period of 10-15 years in the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The rapid rise in ASD diagnoses reflects several factors including changes in diagnostic criteria, greater awareness of autism, reduced stigma, earlier checks on child development and broader interpretations of the autism spectrum. Notably, the rise in diagnoses does not necessarily mean that autism is becoming more common – it is just more commonly detected.
Focus on Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS)
People-centred digital health systems
Lessons from PaRIS
Digital health can improve care, but it can also leave people behind. Data from OECD's Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS) shows that many patients still struggle to benefit fully from digital health services. New findings highlight gaps between ambition and people’s real experiences of care. The evidence points to a clear priority – digital health policies must be designed around people’s needs and capabilities, and with digital tools that operate in a trustworthy and transparent way.
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in the EU. In 2022 it was responsible for one in three deaths and affects over 62 million people, with profound impacts on people’s daily lives. The OECD PaRIS surveys captured data on over 100 000 primary care users aged 45 years and older, offering a unique patient-centred perspective on health and care delivery for people living with chronic health conditions.
Gender and socio-economic gaps in patient-reported measures
Results from PaRIS
16 April, 11:00-12:00 CEST, webinar
This webinar will focus on the results of the PaRIS surveys on how health outcomes and experiences of people vary by factors such as education, income and gender. The results show that people with a lower socio-economic status face a double disadvantage: not only do they fall ill earlier in their lives, but once sick, they also experience worse outcomes compared to their higher-earning or higher-educated counterparts. The discussion will bring together experts on the topic to discuss how a better understanding of these disparities can result in designing better health policies for more equitable results.
Developing and using people’s skills to their full potential at all stages of life is becoming more urgent, especially in light of ageing populations and the digital and green transitions. These megatrends are creating challenges for skills policies by altering both the demand for and supply of skills.
This paper highlights countries’ recent performance and policies in three key areas: rethinking formal education, harnessing adults’ skills and tapping into hidden talent. These topics will drive discussions at the OECD Skills Summit 2026 (27-28 April), hosted by Türkiye, on the theme of “Unlocking talent across generations”.
Health and care systems around the world are under pressure and skill shortages are a major part of the story. New work by the OECD and ILO shows that traditional training pathways alone can’t keep pace with evolving needs in the healthcare sector.
Our new report reviews innovative policy initiatives across 19 countries that are opening flexible and accessible ways into the health and care workforce, which can open doors to entry-level jobs and ease workforce shortages.
