Benefits and Wages

Unemployment and related welfare benefits help prevent those without work from falling into poverty but at the same time, reduce the incentive to work.  Launched in 1998, this periodic report (formerly entitled Benefit Systems and Work Incentives) addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations. It presents a set of tables facilitating cross-country comparisons of tax-benefit systems and compares the incomes of a range of families in and out of work and describes the incentives to work, either part-time or full-time, across OECD countries. Supersedes Benefit Systems and Work Incentives.