This working paper presents evidence on changes in income distribution and poverty in thirteen OECD countries over the two decades up to the first half of the 1990s. While country experience has been variable, income and poverty rose in most countries. Both earnings and capital and self...

This paper presents marginal effective tax rates (METRs) for a number of physical and intangible assets and for a number of funding sources. The assets include machinery, buildings, inventories, investments in short-lived R&D (that is, investments whose returns last only a few years) and in...

<OL><LI>As more countries experience falling structural unemployment, the evidence is mounting that, implemented comprehensively, the OECD Jobs Strategy represents an effective response to countries’ labour market problems. That is the key conclusion to emerge now that the Economic and Development...</li></ol>

A mesure que le chômage structurel baisse dans un nombre croissant de pays, il est de plus en plus manifeste que la Stratégie de l’OCDE pour l’emploi, si elle est intégralement mise en oeuvre, représente une réponse efficace aux problèmes qui se posent sur les marchés du travail....