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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …

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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts

Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019

This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure...

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Financial education for migrants and their families

Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - 2015

Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...

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Finance and income inequality in OECD countries

Denk, Oliver; Cournède, Boris - 2015

Using data from OECD countries over the past three decades, this paper shows that financial expansion has fuelled greater income inequality. Higher levels of credit intermediation and stock markets are both related with a more unequal distribution of income. Greater income inequality may not...

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Household finance and income inequality in the euro area

Denk, Oliver; Cazenave-Lacroutz, Alexandre - 2015

The size and composition of assets and liabilities of households differ vastly across the income distribution in euro area countries. This paper shows that differences between income groups in household finance on both sides of the balance sheet contribute to income inequality. The distribution...

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Measuring financial literacy : results of the OECD International Network on Financial Education (INFE) pilot study

Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - 2012

This paper presents the findings from an OECD International Network on Financial Education pilot study undertaken in 14 countries. The analysis focuses on variations in financial knowledge, behaviour and attitude across countries and within countries by socio-demographics.The results highlight a...

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Urbanisation and household consumption in China

Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas; Ren, Qiang - 2017

This paper focusses on the link between urbanisation and consumption behaviour in China. Urbanisation is defined here as rural people moving to cities to work and migrant workers in cities obtaining urban residential status, against the backdrop of government plans to settle 100 million rural...

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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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Raising the mobility of thirdcountry nationals in the EU : effects from naturalisation and long-term resident status

Poeschel, Friedrich - 2016

This paper is part of the joint project between the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European … Commission and the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs on “Review of Labour Migration Policy in Europe … migration in June 2015. The functioning of labour markets in the European Union can benefit if third-country nationals become …

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014

The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …

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