Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

1. Introduction
2. The global economic and labour market context
2.1. Economic growth
2.2. The evolution of public debt
2.3. Inflation rates
2.4. The labour market context
3. Wage trends in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and rising price inflation
3.1. Global wage trends
3.2. Regional wage trends
3.3. Wage indices in the G20 economies
3.4. Wages and productivity trends in high-income countries
3.5. The cost of inflation across the income distribution
3.6. Inflation rates biting into the purchasing power of minimum wages
3.7. Evolution of the total wage bill before and during the COVID-19 crisis
3.8. Decomposing the change in the total wage bill over time, and a comparison between women and men
3.9. Changes in employment and wages across the wage distribution in the formal and informal economies
4. Wage inequality in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and rising price inflation
4.1. The COVID-19 crisis and wage inequality
4.2. Uncovering the factors behind changes in wage inequality
4.3. The COVID-19 crisis and the gender pay gap
5. Policy options and responses to the cost-of-living crisis
5.1. Macroeconomic policies
5.2. The need to strengthen labour market institutions and wage policies
5.3. Policies to support households, particularly the most vulnerable, during high inflation
5.4. Tackling the gender pay gap
5.5. The role of multilateralism