G20 faces persistent gaps in employment and job quality – Newsroom – OECD

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This is an excellent must read report from OECD. Check it out!

via Newsroom – OECD.

Every millennial should read this report.

Working people are getting an increasingly smaller share of the cake. For those lucky enough to have jobs, wage rates are not growing and the quality of jobs is falling.

In short, more young people will need to look to multiple jobs or to stacking supermarket shelves as a means of avoiding unemployment. Others will need to relocate overseas, learn new skills or languages.

There is another way, of course, but policy-makers don’t want to stimulate economic demand to create jobs.

Policy-makers and their sponsors in Berlin, London & Washington are doing OK, so they need reminding about the lost-generations. Take Southern Europe, for example, countries like Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, Portugal & France desperately need investment to stimulate jobs. Meanwhile, the Eurocrats are sitting happy thank you.

Not fair, is it? 

Thoughts?

Trends in Top Incomes and their Taxation in OECD Countries | OECD READ edition

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English: Income inequality in the United States, 1979-2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This working paper published by OECD is well worth a read. Check it out!

via Trends in Top Incomes and their Taxation in OECD Countries | OECD READ edition.

The graphs, in the paper, highlighs income inequality in both the US and the UK being significantly ahead of other leading countries.

Personally, I believe that income inequality has become more acute since the financial crisis of 2008. The wealthy have seen their wealth rebound since 2008 but the working and middle classes have been severely squeezed by excessive austerity.

Any thoughts?

 

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