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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 1. Mapping Income Inequality Across the OECD
Hoeller, Peter; Joumard, Isabelle; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393776
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Improving the business regulatory environment in Poland
Terrero-Davila, Javier - 2023
that important policy goals are addressed, and market failures tackled. However, regulation can also create barriers to the … address the policy objectives and the market failure(s) regulation is intended to solve. This paper relies on the last vintage … of the Product Market Regulation indicators to determine to what extent Poland's National Recovery and Resilience Plan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435849
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Efficacité et équité du système de prélèvements et de transferts en France
Égert, Balázs - 2013
Les impôts et les transferts en espèces réduisent en France les inégalités de revenu plus que dans beaucoup d’autres pays de l’OCDE en raison de la taille importante des flux concernés. Mais le système est complexe dans son ensemble. Son efficacité pourrait être améliorée à bien...
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The Efficiency and Equity of the Tax and Transfer System in France
Égert, Balázs - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274980
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Improving the well-being of Canadians
Jarrett, Peter - 2021
For many years now, a growing number of economists, policy makers, and civil society groups have pointed to the limits of using only GDP as the primary measure of national economic progress. Accordingly, a progressively greater focus has been placed on the concept of well-being and its optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630297
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Alternative Measures of Well-Being
Boarini, Romina - 2006
This paper assesses if GDP per capita is an adequate proxy as a measure of wellbeing or whether other indicators are more suitable for this purpose. Within the national accounts framework, other better measures of economic resources exist, but they are closely correlated with GDP per capita and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444706
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Promoting Social Cohesion in Korea
Jones, Randall S.; Urasawa, Satoshi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Korea faces the challenge of reversing rising inequality while sustaining robust economic growth. Welltargeted increases in Korea’s low level of social spending are needed to fill holes in the safety net, especially for the elderly. The development of social security depends on closing gaps in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276792
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What Makes Mexicans Happy?
Dugain, Valéry; Olaberriá, Eduardo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
The growing literature studying the determinants of subjective wellbeing find that Mexicans report, on average, levels of life satisfaction that are above what would be predicted by the available objective measures of well-being. This paradox raises the following question: Are the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277025
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Alternative Measures of Well-Being
Boarini, Romina; Johansson, Åsa; d'Ercole, Marco Mira - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
This paper assesses if GDP per capita is an adequate proxy as a measure of wellbeing or whether other indicators are more suitable for this purpose. Within the national accounts framework, other better measures of economic resources exist, but they are closely correlated with GDP per capita and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045914
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The Economics of Civil Justice: New Cross-country Data and Empirics
Palumbo, Giuliana; Giupponi, Giulia; Nunziata, Luca; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper develops indicators of the performance and the institutional characteristics of OECD judicial systems. It provides cross-country comparisons of measures of trial length, accessibility to justice services and predictability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276872