• OECD Employment Outlook

• Jan 2012:  Eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits: Quantitative indicators for OECD and EU countries (Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 131)

• Dec 2011: Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising In the three decades prior to the recent economic downturn, wage gaps widened and household income inequality increased in a large majority of OECD countries. This occurred even when countries were going through a period of sustained economic and employment growth. This report analyses the major underlying forces behind these developments.

• Oct 2011: Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades? (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 122) A range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or accelerated the trend towards greater income disparities in the past 20-25 years.

• May 2011: Economic Crisis and Beyond: Social Policies for the Recovery

• Benefits and Wages, 2007 edition

 Related working papers No. 46, 51, 67, 76, 81, 100 are also available from here.

Contacts

For further information: contact Tax-Benefit.Models@oecd.org.