Analyses the manner in which European Union (EU) Member States addressed the labour market issues that arose in the aftermath of the 2007-08 financial crisis. Finds a strong reaction from policy-makers to the financial crisis when it comes to the labour market, which was balanced between helping...

This paper provides evidence that from 1985 to 2005, two thirds of OECD countries have seen an increase in earnings inequality. In nearly half of these countries, the widening was driven by an increase in inequality at both the top and the bottom of the distribution. In the other half, rising...