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As underlying drivers of gender inequalities, discriminatory social institutions perpetuate gender gaps in development areas, such as education, employment and health, and hinder progress towards rights-based social transformation that benefits both women and men.
Despite having advanced social protection systems, OECD countries still face challenges in identifying, enrolling, and providing benefits and services to all those in need.
Strengthening the social safety net in Korea. Hyunjeong Hwang, Axel Purwin, and Jon Pareliussen1. Korea’s income per capita (on a PPP basis) rose rapidly over the past decades, surpassing the OECD average in 2020, but social inclusion failed to keep pace with the economic take-off.
It utilises novel techniques to identify the economically insecure, those most vulnerable to income fluctuations, in European OECD countries, and explores the link between income fluctuations, social mobility, and income inequality.
This paper was originally commissioned by the Finnish Ministry for Health and Welfare as a background document to inform discussion at the Employment and Social Policy Council (EPSCO) Meeting in Brussels on the 8th of July 2019 and support a key priority of Finland’s Presidency of the EU Council.
advantages and disadvantages of the consumer welfare standard compared to alternative welfare standards. Antitrust welfare standards are the criteria used by courts and regulators to assess the effects of business conduct and mergers on social welfare, all of which reflect different normative goals and assumptions. 2.
welfare standard? That depends on how one defines consumer welfare, and what role one considers for it in competition policy. We will briefly discuss this touching on aforementioned subjects of climate change and sustainability, innovation, and labor markets.
Fertility rates have declined by half in OECD countries over the past 60 years, posing the risk of population decline and serious economic and social challenges for future generations, according to a new OECD report.
some uncertainty as to exactly what the consumer welfare standard is, let alone whether it is the “correct” standard. Defining it is clearly an important part of considering its advantages and disadvantages.
THE COUNCIL, HAVING REGARD to Article 5 b) of the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development of 14 December 1960; HAVING REGARD to the standards developed by the OECD in the areas of international investment and multinational enterprises, responsible business conduct, competitive neutrality, bribery of foreign public