Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand … have exerted upward pressure on inequality. The estimated model is used to decompose historical changes in earning …

capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …

investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in … increase of inequality that is concentrated mostly in the lower part of regional income distributions. We determine a … significant channeling of the trade pressure to income inequality through the shrinking manufacturing sector, the increasing …

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution … policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …

. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also … the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …

the quantity and quality of LTSI are often worryingly low, pointing to an important role for financial education to … education aimed at increasing LTSI have identified some promising results. Initial findings suggest the need for additional …, targeted evaluation of education programmes to compare the effects of different delivery channels and the intensity of …