This study catalogues the treatment of farmers within the tax and social security systems of a large number of OECD countries, knowledge of which has been very scarce up to now. The conceptual basis for deciding what constitutes a concession conferring financial benefit to the farmer is...

Social security contributions are compulsory payments paid to general government that confer entitlement to receive a (contingent) future social benefit. They include: unemployment insurance benefits and supplements, accident, injury and sickness benefits, old-age, disability and survivors'...

Over the past ten years economic growth in Asia has contributed to a reduction of poverty as well as fertility rates, and greater prosperity has contributed to gains in life expectancy. However, at present many workers still work in informal employment, frequently for long hours at little pay...

The potential role of social protection in the development process has received heightened recognition in recent years, yet making a strong investment case for social protection remains particularly challenging in many emerging and developing countries. This report challenges us to think deeply...

National insurance market share is defined as a country's national insurance market compared with the OECD insurance market total. It measures the importance of the national insurance market as an index using the OECD insurance market total as base; OECD=100.

This dataset presents the positions and flows of pension liabilities in all pension schemes that are considered to be part of social insurance, as well as the corresponding entitlements as seen from the viewpoint of (resident and non-resident) households, including social insurance pension...

This dataset presents the positions and flows of pension liabilities in all pension schemes that are considered to be part of social insurance, as well as the corresponding entitlements as seen from the viewpoint of (resident and non-resident) households, including social insurance pension...