11-October-2017
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Luxembourg’s workforce is highly skilled, reflecting the concentration in the country of sophisticated firms in the financial sector and other top-end international services.
28-September-2017
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Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area
27-September-2017
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While India’s per capita income is converging towards that of the richer countries, inequality has drifted up.
11-September-2017
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Living standards in China have greatly improved over the past few decades. Both sustained economic growth and an expansion of the social security system have contributed to a sharp reduction in the number of people in poverty.
11-September-2017
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With persisting slower growth worldwide and in China, over-capacity in some heavy industry sectors, declining profitability, and intensifying competition from other, lower-cost emerging economies, corporate behaviour in China needs to change and focus more on efficiency and sustainability.
7-August-2017
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Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD countries, even after controlling for differences in per capita income and other social, cultural and lifestyle factors.
7-August-2017
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This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include the countries in the second wave of OECD Survey of Adult Skills, with a special focus on New Zealand.
7-August-2017
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This paper presents the global income distribution between all individuals living in the developed world.
11-July-2017
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This report provides a review of recent migration trends to and from G20 countries and the EU28. It shows that about 157 million international migrants, or almost two third of all international migrants, live in the G20 countries. Foreign born people represent about 3.3% of the total G20 population and on average, every second migrant is a woman.
30-June-2017
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This paper explores cross-country differences in the design of insolvency regimes and their potential links with two inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of "zombie" firms (firms that would typically exit in a competitive market) and capital misallocation.