8-June-2017
English
R&D activity can play a central role in raising productivity.
8-June-2017
English
This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies.
8-June-2017
English
Innovation is key to boosting Australia’s productivity and inclusiveness.
30-May-2017
English
The Spanish economy is growing strongly, but there is a risk that many people are being left behind.
2-May-2017
English
Despite strong economic growth, Costa Rica’s income inequality has increased in the past decade, in stark contrast with other Latin American countries.
21-April-2017
English
Structural trends not directly related to labour market functioning and redistribution have made a sizeable contribution to inequality and poverty in Sweden, but occupy only limited space in the income inequality debate.
19-April-2017
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Brazil’s old-age pensions have reduced old-age poverty below OECD levels, but pension expenditures of 8.2% of GDP are expected to rise rapidly as the population ages. A pension reform is necessary to ensure the financial sustainability of the system.
30-March-2017
English
Labour markets are in a continual state of flux. Workers get employed, leave a job and become unemployed, join the labour force or leave the labour force. The balance of these flows determines the overall employment rate.
7-March-2017
English
Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently at its maximum historical value.
24-January-2017
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This paper provides a quantitative description of decoupling in OECD countries over the past two decades, with the results suggesting that it is explained by declines in both labour shares and the ratio of median to average wages (a partial measure of wage inequality).