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. 

Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators

21-Mar-2011

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.

OECD Pensions Indicators

17-Mar-2011

With co-operation from the EU and World Bank, and in view of the strong demand for cross-national indicators on the situation of pensions, the OECD has developed on-line indicators on pension outcomes and pension policies for all OECD/EU countries.

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

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.

Key employment statistics

07-Jul-2010

The feature Key Employment Statistics allows cross-country comparisons on labour market indicators, outcomes, policies and institutions.

Social issues: Key tables from OECD

09-Apr-2010

The key tables on social issues comprise public and private spending. These include social, old age, health and unemployment spending. Historical data refer to the latest eight time periods.

Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

03-Mar-2010

Data on DAC members’ aid targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment are compiled with the help of the gender equality marker in the Creditor Reporting System (CRS).

OECD statistics on measuring economic performance and social progress

14-Sep-2009

In remarks prepared for a workshop on the findings of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress set up by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Gurría noted that the ...

The OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index

03-Mar-2009

OECD Development Centre

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)  is a new composite measure of gender equality. By focusing on the root casus behind gender inequalities, it complements and improves existing measures in several ways.