Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …

income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy …. Drawing on empirical analysis of the links between structural policies and the distribution of labour income, the paper looks … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income …

. Within countries, it assesses the possibilities for individuals to protect their wealth, labour and capital income against … institutions can be identified that facilitate risk sharing between high and low income earners, namely “social protection” and …

different income levels. More specifically, it investigates the extent to which structural policies have differential long … reforms are found to deliver stronger income gains for households at the lower end of the distribution compared with the …

This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on … incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the … differences in income distributions across countries and over time. For example, it assesses the extent to which stability in …