Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour … income inequality is shaped by differences in wage rates, hours worked and inactivity rates. Individual labour income … inequality is the main driver of household market income inequality, with family formation as well as self-employment and capital …

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that … overall inequality has ceased to increase in recent years, and may even have inched down. Alternative measures of income …

Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity … main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a result, a significant revision of the previous consensus about the …

potential. We also look at the potential implications of regulatory reform for employment security and income inequality. We …