WDI: Poverty and Inequality
Indicators and statistics
Working conditions | Vulnerability | Poverty Tabular data | Quantitative data | Time series National level since 1970 | 1980 | 1981+ 38 EU28 | Other | Austria+ 31
National governments and their development partners are all working to reduce poverty. Although it is often thought of as a lack of material resources, poverty is correlated closely with all aspects of a person’s life: the world’s poor are more likely to be malnourished, they hav...
CSB Social inequality and wealth distribution in the welfare state
Indicators and statistics
Working conditions Policy data | Quantitative data National level 1992 | 1993 | 1994+ 27 Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria+ 24
The CSB Minimum Income Protection Indicators database contains data on minimum income protection provisions for workers, people at working age not in work, and the elderly. Information on net disposable incomes is available since 1992 for 15 EU member states. From 2001 on, CSB-MI...
Leiden LIS Sectoral Income Inequality Dataset
Indicators and statistics, Datasets
Working conditions | Vulnerability Tabular data | Quantitative data National level 1980 | 1981 | 1982+ 24 Austria | Belgium | The Czech Republic+ 9
The Leiden LIS Sectoral Income Inequality Dataset provides information on multiple indicators of earnings inequality and employment within 9 economic sectors and 12 subsectors for 12 developed countries for the period 1969-2005. The dataset is drawn upon microdata from the Luxemb...
Standardized World Income Inequality Database , SWIID
Indicators and statistics, Datasets
Working conditions Quantitative data National level since 1960 | 1980 | 1981+ 37 EU28 | Other | Austria+ 27
Cross-national research on the causes and consequences of income inequality has been hindered by the limitations of existing inequality datasets: greater coverage across countries and over time is available from these sources only at the cost of significantly reduced comparabilit...
Estimated Household Income Inequality Dataset , EHII
Indicators and statistics, Datasets
Working conditions | Poverty Policy data | Quantitative data | Tabular data National level 1980 | 1981 | 1982+ 34 EU28 | Other | Austria+ 38Social Benefit Recipients Database , OECD SOCR
Indicators and statistics, Datasets
Working conditions Tabular data | Quantitative data National level 2007 | 2008 | 2009+ 9 Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria+ 31
The Social Benefit and Recipients Database by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the first database that presents comparable information on the number of cash benefit receivers in most OECD and EU countries. The database includes data from the ma...
Social Security Programs Throughout the World
Indicators and statistics
Social policy | Poverty Textual data National level 2002 | 2003 | 2004+ 15 Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria+ 32
The Social Security Programs Throughout the World highlights the principal features of social security programs in more than 170 countries with summaries on relevant topics: types of social security programs, types of mandatory systems for retirement income, demographic and other...
Social dialogue texts database
Datasets
Working conditions | Vulnerability Textual data National level | Sectoral level since 1980 | 1980 | 1981+ 40 EU28 | Austria | Belgium+ 26
European social dialogue refers to discussions, consultations, negotiations and joint actions involving organisations representing the two sides of industry (employers and workers). It takes two main forms:
- a tripartite dialogue involving the public authorities;
- a bipartite d...
Mutual Information System on Social Protection, MISSOC
Datasets, Indicators and statistics
Working conditions | Vulnerability | Poverty Textual data | Policy data National level 2004 | 2005 | 2006+ 15 Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria+ 27
The EU's Mutual Information System on Social Protection (MISSOC) provides detailed, comparable and regularly updated information about national social protection systems in English, French and German.
MISSOC publishes twice a year (January and July) updated information on the so...
Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe , MISSCEO
Datasets, Indicators and statistics
Working conditions | Vulnerability | Social policy+ 1 Policy data National level 2004 | 2005 | 2006+ 14 Albania | Armenia | Bosnia & Herzegovina+ 8
The Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe (MISSCEO) aims to promote the exchange of information on social protection in the member states of the Council of Europe (which are European countries that are not members of the European Union (EU) or th...