While Korea remains one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, its potential growth rate per capita is projected to … decelerate from around 4% during the current decade to around 2¼ per cent during the 2030s. Sustaining growth requires policies … young people, improved vocational education at the secondary and tertiary levels would help overcome the labour mismatch …

-informed and well-targeted policy is therefore needed to ensure that the benefits of technology and globalisation are widely shared … policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …

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 …

Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth … but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role …, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa Familia” programme. Among public services, improved access to education …

raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … current targeted support. Capital taxation should be streamlined to improve incentives for entrepreneurship and growth. The … performance of the higher education system could be improved through allocating more R&D funding and teaching resources based on …

The rapid growth after independence stopped in 2008 as the global crisis exposed important structural weaknesses. Large …-skilled workers. Limiting the minimum wage growth, and lowering the high tax wedge on labour income could boost employment. Efficiency … should be raised in early and tertiary education to enhance skills. Despite generous public support, overall students …

of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context …Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … low intergenerational social mobility and weak real income growth for many households. A more inclusive pattern of growth …

-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the … by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … the largest gap with respect to OECD countries is observed. Policy efforts are also warranted to tackle informality, which …

Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … discussion of the results of empirical analysis, has preferred to focus on income inequality. This paper looks into the analysis … of wealth inequality, which can be performed by carefully adapting the techniques used in the case of income …

support of Argentina’s G20 presidency. Against a backdrop of increased inequality and persistently low productivity growth …This paper, Tax policies for inclusive growth in a changing world, has been prepared in support of Argentina’s G20 … Presidency. While this paper is focused on taxation policy, it forms part of a broader contribution that the OECD has made in …