23-January-2012
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Inequality in labour income - What are its drivers and how can it be reduced? Economics Department Policy Note No. 8
23-January-2012
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Countries can use labour market reforms, more targeted tax and transfer systems and better education policies to simultaneously curb the income gap between rich and poor while boosting economic growth.
23-January-2012
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Inequality in labour income - What are its drivers and how can it be reduced? Economics Department Policy Note No. 8
12-January-2012
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This paper explores the role of macroeconomic factors and structural policies in shaping the distribution of labour income.
12-January-2012
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Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour income inequality is shaped by differences in wage rates, hours worked and inactivity rates.
12-January-2012
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Over the past decades, top incomes have soared, especially in the English-speaking countries. Despite a considerable amount of research on top income developments, there is still substantial disagreement about the causes for their rapid increase.
12-January-2012
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The wealth distribution within OECD countries is very concentrated and much more so than the income distribution. Wealth dispersion is especially high in the United States and Sweden.
2-January-2012
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The paper explores issues with assessing wellbeing in OECD countries based on self-reported life satisfaction surveys in a pooled regression over time and countries, at the country level and the OECD average.
2-January-2012
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In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made.
19-December-2011
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Using plant-level data from the Annual Survey of Industries for the fiscal years 1998-99 through 2007-08, this study provides plant-level cross-state/time-series evidence of the impact of employment protection legislation on total factor productivity¨and labour productivity in India.