Boosting jobs and living standards in G20 countries

Almost four years since the onset of the global financial and economic crisis, unemployment and underemployment remain stubbornly high in many G20 countries, and many workers remain trapped in low-paid, often informal, jobs with little social protection.

Promoting social cohesion in Korea

Korea faces the challenge of reversing rising inequality while sustaining robust economic growth.

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Meeting of National Economic Research Organisations, OECD Headquarters, 18 June 2012

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Towards a more inclusive labour market in Hungary

A rapid decrease in unemployment is a short-term priority to limit social problems and reduce the risk of rising structural unemployment.

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Promoting inclusive growth: Challenges and policies

How to design appropriate policies to strengthen growth and make it inclusive and sustainable over time? The policy issues highlighted in this volume - financial development,social policies, innovation, regulation and political economy issues - are relevant to all countries.

New Sources of Growth: Knowledge-based Capital - Interim Project Findings - C-MIN(2012)12-REV1

Investment and growth in OECD economies are increasingly driven by knowledge-based capital (KBC). In many OECD countries, firms now invest as much or more in KBC as they do in physical capital such as machinery, equipment and buildings.

Reducing poverty in Chile: cash transfers and better jobs

Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax-benefit system does little to improve on this.

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Less income inequality and more growth – are they compatible? Part 8. The drivers of labour income inequality – a literature review

Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries.

The short-term effects of structural reforms: an empirical analysis

This paper sheds light on the impact of reforms over time, identifies the horizon over which their full effects materialise, and investigates whether such effects vary with prevailing economic conditions and institutions.

Short-term gain or pain? A DSGE model-based analysis of the short-term effects of structural reforms in labour and product markets

This paper explores the short-term effects of labour and product market reforms through a dynamic general equilibrium model that features endogenous producer entry, equilibrium unemployment and costly job creation and destruction.