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Röhn, Oliver; Gönenç, Rauf; Beer, Christian; … - 2013

inequality and poverty. This has been combined with gains in leisure time, especially time spent in retirement, low unemployment …

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Economic growth from the household perspective : GDP and income distribution developments across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Araújo, Sónia; Cavaciuti, Agnès; … - 2014

paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … overall income inequality masks compensating changes between the lower and upper halves of the income distribution. Also, it … inequality and comparing their evolution over time provides new policy-relevant perspectives on the nature of the changing income …

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Multi-dimensional living standards : a welfare measure based on preferences

Boarini, Romina; Murtin, Fabrice; Schreyer, Paul; … - 2016

unemployment. Rising income inequality exerts a negative effect on our welfare measure. Gains in longevity have almost the same …

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Fathers' leave, fathers' involvement and child development : are they related? ; evidence from four OECD countries

Huerta, Maria del Carmen; Adema, Willem; Baxter, Jennifer; … - 2013

Previous research has shown that fathers taking some time off work around childbirth, especially periods of leave of 2 or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities than fathers who do not do so. Furthermore, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are...

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Responding to key wellbeing challenges in Austria

Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Beer, Christian; … - 2013

Important challenges for the future of Austrian well-being arise from demographic and environmental trends. The ageing of the population calls for a fair balance between life-time pension contributions and entitlements, drawing on the recent pension reform. Such progress will allow Austrians to...

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Measuring consumer inflation in a digital economy

Reinsdorf, Marshall B.; Schreyer, Paul - 2019

The effect on the household consumption price index from possible sources of error in capturing digital products depends on the weight of the affected products. To calculate upper bounds for this effect, we apply weights based on the average structure of household consumption in OECD countries...

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Making New Zealand's economic growth more inclusive

Carey, David - 2015

to the OECD average but contributed to large increases in income inequality and poverty that have only been partially …

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The role of the labour market

Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. Reducing income inequality is a key government objective and this requires improving the performance of the labour market …

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Reducing poverty in Chile : cash transfers and better jobs

Brandt, Nicola - 2012

Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax …

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Income distribution and poverty in Russia

Denisova, Irina - 2012

The paper is a survey of literature and statistical sources on poverty and inequality in Russia in the 1990s and the … that was released in 2011. We start with an overview of poverty and income inequality estimates available. Poverty and … inequality trends are then complemented with poverty incidence analysis based on a nationally representative household survey …

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