Global Wage Report 2014/15 : Wages and Income Inequality

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Preface; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; Part I. Major trends in wages; 1 Introduction ; 2 Trends in average wage growth in the global economy ; 3 Developed economies ; 3.1 Average wages: Some variation across countries ; 3.2 Productivity outstrips wage growth in developed economies ; 3.3 Labour income shares ; 4 Trends in emerging and developing economies ; 4.1 Higher wage growth ; 4.2 Labour income share can decline despite high wage growth ; 5 Towards a progressive convergence in average wages? ; Part II. Wages and income inequality

6 Introduction: The role of wages in household income inequality 6.1 The context: Long-term inequality on the rise in many countries since the 1980s ; 6.2 The range of policy responses to inequality ; 7.1 Measuring "top-bottom" and "middle-class" inequality ; 7 Mixed recent trends in income inequality ; 7.2 Developed economies: Mixed inequality trends in a context of generally flat or declining income; 7.3 Emerging and developing economies: Varying inequality in a context of generally increasing incom; 8 Inequality: The role of wages and paid employment

8.1 Analysing how wages affect changes in inequality 8.2 The labour market effect: Wage effect plus employment effect ; 8.3 Developed economies: Job losses and wage cuts as the major factors in changes in inequality ; 8.4 Emerging and developing economies: A major role for labour market effects ; 9 Relating inequality to sources of income ; 9.1 Developed economies: Disaggregating income sources ; 9.2 Emerging and developing economies: A varied and evolving picture ; 10 Wage gaps: Which workers earn less than others, and why? ; 10.1 The gender wage gap ; 10.2 The migrant wage gap

10.3 The informal economy wage gap Part III. Policy responses to address wages and inequality; 11 Introduction: The policy challenge ; 12 Labour market policies to address wages and inequality (primary distribution) ; 12.1 The role of policies to affect wages and wage distribution directly ; 12.2 The role of policies to affect wages and wage distribution indirectly ; 13 Fiscal policies to address wages and inequality (secondary distribution) ; 13.1 The role of taxes ; 13.2 The role of social protection and its relationship to labour market policies

14 Conclusion: Combined policy actions can address inequality, promote employment and support aggregAppendixes; Appendix I. Global wage trends: Methodological issues; Appendix II. Definitions, concepts and data issues ; Appendix III. Changes in household income inequality ; Appendix IV. Decomposing wage gaps ; Notes; Bibliography

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