Social and welfare issues
The OECD Risks That Matter Survey
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred perhaps the largest expansion of social protection systems in seventy years. And yet people are calling for even more help from their governments. Drawing on 25 000 responses from 25 OECD countries, the 2020 Risks that Matter survey finds that people are worried about keeping their jobs, paying the bills, and staying healthy. Seven out of ten respondents say government should be doing more to ensure their economic security, and many are willing to pay more in taxes to support this. The perspectives offered by the Risks that Matter project offer important insights on how to expand and reform social protection as OECD countries slowly start to recover from the pandemic.
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Publications and data
Forthcoming 2022 Risks that Matter survey:
- Apply now to insert questions via our Call for proposals
- Monday 11 April 2022: Join us / Register for an online RTM workshop “Fearing the future? Assessing risk perceptions, labour market changes and the future of social protection”
- Highlights from OECD’s 2021 RTM publications - Valerie Frey, OECD
- Technostress, technological change and the role of the welfare state - Tobias Tober, Ann Sophie Lauterbach and Florian Kunze, University of Konstanz
- Young people’s concerns during COVID-19: Evidence from the OECD Risk that Matter Survey - Veerle Miranda, OECD
2020 OECD Risks that Matter Survey
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Report: Main Findings from the 2020 Risks that Matter Survey (July 2021)
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2018 OECD Risks that Matter Survey
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Findings
Articles
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Figures, Tables and Technical Information
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Media highlights
- Bloomberg: Pandemic fuels big government appetite, even if it means more taxes
- Milenio : Mexico, el pais más golpeado por la crisis del covid-19: OCDE
- Wienerzeitung: OECD-Studie zeigt wachsende Sorgen um finanzielle Sicherheit
- CBC News: Tax the rich and give us more services, Canadians say in OECD survey
- Expresso: O que é que os portugueses mais temem? Ficar doentes, com uma deficiência ou desempregados
- Le Figaro: Plus que le chômage, les Français craignent la maladie et le handicap
- Financial Times: Many societies favour taxing the rich more, OECD survey finds
- Guardian: Most people want higher taxes on rich to support poor
- Handelsblatt: Deutsche machen sich stärker als andere Europäer Sorgen um ihre Rente
- Irish Times: Majority would pay higher taxes to resolve housing crisis, study finds
- New York Times: People want higher taxes on rich, better welfare: 21-country OECD survey
- Wirtschaftswoche: Die Deutschen wollen mehr Sozialstaat
Contact
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