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Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators

30-Mar-2012

The project "Benefits and Wages" addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations and their impact on household incomes and financial work incentives.

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Sickness, Disability, Mental health and Work - Selection of tables and charts

12-Dec-2011

Prevalence of disability and mental health disorders, share of disability benefit recipients, employment and unemployment rates of persons with a disability, etc. 

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Income Distribution and Poverty: Data, Figures, Methods and Concepts

01-Dec-2011

Gini coefficients, Poverty rates, Income composition in MS-Excel, Gapminder dynamic charts, or OECD.Stat: data on income distribution and poverty in 34 OECD countries in the last 25 years.

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Social Expenditure Database (SOCX)

27-Oct-2011

SOCX presents information on trends and composition of social expenditure across the OECD from 1980 to 2007. This version also includes estimates of net total social spending for 2007 for 27 OECD countries.

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OECD Family database

27-Apr-2011

In view of the strong demand for cross-national indicators on the situation of families and children, the OECD Family database was developed to provide indicators on family outcomes and family policies across the OECD countries.

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OECD Social Indicators from Society at a Glance 2011

12-Apr-2011

Demography, unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction. This report also provides a special chapter on time on unpaid work across the OECD. 

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Ageing and Employment Policies - Statistics on average effective age of retirement

16-Mar-2011

One indicator of retirement behaviour that abstracts from more general factors
affecting the level of participation rates is the average effective age at which older workers withdraw from the labour force

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Summary data and tables from the OECD-EU labour market and social policy database on emerging economies

24-Jan-2011

This .xls file presents summary data for Brazil, China, India and South Africa, on: (1) Population, (2) Macroeconomic Trends, (3) Labour Market, (4) Wages and earnings, (5) LMPR (Labour Market Regulations and Policies), (6) Income and Inequality, (7) Poverty Rates and (8) Social Policies.

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