How did the War on Poverty go?

Implicit tax on a lone parent returning to a low-paid job in the USA, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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Source: Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth – OECD (2016).

Ratio of unemployment and single parents benefit to the New Zealand net average wage since 1970

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Source: OECD Economic Survey New Zealand 2015.

Implicit tax on returning to work for a 2nd earner in ordinary US, Danish, British, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, German and French families

Not a lot of point for a 2nd earner in an ordinary family going back to work in the English-speaking countries once you consider the childcare fees for a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. These calculations were released today in Paris in the OECD’s Going for Growth 2016.

Source: Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth – OECD (2016).

Average #retirement ages across the OECD area

https://twitter.com/OECD_Pubs/status/693021294695034880

When the robots came to the farms

https://twitter.com/CountCarbon/status/702097835886383105

British full-time gender wage gap by age band

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Source: What is the Gender Pay Gap? | Visual.ONS.

@BernieSanders has the type of friends that make you prefer your enemies

The economist costing the economic plan of a 74-year-old candidate forgot there is an ageing society in his labour force participation rate projections.

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Source: Gerald Frieldman (2016).

Hours worked per year across the OECD, 2014

Expected years in retirement by gender in the G7 countries, Australia and New Zealand

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Source: OECD Pensions at a Glance 2015.

Field of study by gender across the OECD

Effective labour market exit age by gender in the G7 countries, Australia and New Zealand

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Source: OECD Pensions at a Glance 2015.

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Food Stamp Work Requirement Cuts Non-parent Caseload by 75% @GreenCatherine

In common with New Zealand, Maine found that a number could not complete work requirements because they could not get time off work from their off the books job.

Lindsay Mitchell found through Official Information Act requests that one in 10 beneficiaries are working full-time and one in 5 have no intention of looking for a job in the next year despite a requirement to actively look for work as a condition of receipt of their benefit.

Which countries are the biggest exporters of their own citizens

More trigger warnings for fainting couch feminists

https://twitter.com/cl_kitchens/status/696852649002401792/p%20%20phttps://twitter.com/IWF/status/697584640756994048

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