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There is widespread concern that economic growth has not been shared fairly, and that the current economic crisis further widens the gap between rich and poor. The work below examines trends in inequality and poverty for OECD and non-OECD countries. It analyses possible causes for growing inequalities, such as globalisation, skill-biased technological change and changes in policy fashion. And it assesses the effectiveness of social and labour market policies in tackling poverty and excessive inequalities.
What's new?
| Increase in Gini coefficient of income inequality OECD average, mid-1980s = 100
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15 May 2013 New 8-page report: Crisis squeezes income and puts pressure on inequality and poverty in the OECD (report in .pdf and all charts in .xls) New OECD data show that the global economic crisis has squeezed incomes from work and capital in most countries. Read the press release " Growing risk of inequality and poverty as crisis hits the poor hardest" See also New results from the OECD Income Distribution Database |
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Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising
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OECD Income Distribution Database: Data, Figures, Methods and Concepts
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Policy Brief: In-Work Poverty: What can Governments do? (2009), from OECD Employment Outlook 2009
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Growing Unequal?: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries published in October 2008 |
OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 22 (.pdf), OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No.22 (2005)
Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area: Trends and Driving Forces; OECD Economic Studies, No.34 (2002)
Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Paper No. 42, Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Paper No.42 (2000)
Economics Department Working Paper No. 189, Economics Department Working Paper No.189 (1998)
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