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The jobs crisis: What are the implications for employment and social policy? How badly are workers faring in the current economic crisis? Which groups are being most affected? How can governments ensure that workers have the help they need to weather the storm, while also laying the basis for a strong recovery? How do industry, firm and worker characteristics shape job and worker flows? What is the impact of industry, firm and worker characteristics on job and worker flows? How large is the re-allocation of jobs and workers? Which are the firms that create and destroy more jobs? Are labour resources re-allocated from the least to the most efficient firms? Is work the best antidote to poverty? How does in work poverty vary across workers and households? What are OECD countries doing to alleviate it? What are the roles of social transfer systems and minimum wages? Pathways onto (and off) disability benefits: Assessing the role of policy and individual circumstances Is health worsening among certain groups? What is the role of changes in health status and in work-related factors in explaining the growing inflow into disability benefits? What are OECD countries doing to promote the employment integration of people with disabilities?