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Society at a Glance: Social Indicators Presentation: Anna Cristina D'Addio Economist, OECD Social Policy Division Marco Mira d'Ercole Senior Economist, OECD Social Policy Division

Event Description:

Anna Cristina D'Addio and Marco Mira d'Ercole will present highlights from the 2006 edition of Society at a Glance, the OECD bi-annual compendium of social indicators. This report presents updated estimates for some of the indicators on employment, education and social spending presented in previous editions, and adds new indicators of childcare costs, poverty persistence, health inequalities and trust in political institutions. In addition, this report takes stock of the role of social indicators for the broader agenda of measuring the well-being of OECD societies.

Biographies:

Anna Cristina D'Addio is an Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, in the Social Policy Division. She has worked recently on the decline of fertility rates in OECD countries, with a particular emphasis on the role of policies, and on the intergenerational transmission of advantages and disadvantages. She is currently working on pensions and is participating to other projects in the Division. Before joining the OECD, Anna Cristina D'Addio was associate professor in micro-econometrics applied to the labour market and teaching at different universities and research centres such as the Center for Applied Econometrics (CAM) at the University of Copenhagen, the Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA) and the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the Department of Economics at the University of Aarhus. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Genoa, a Master in Quantitative Economics from CORE at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, a Doctorate in Public Economics from the University of Pavia and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics from CORE and IRES at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.

Marco Mira d'Ercole is a Senior Economist in the Social Policy Division within the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD. He has worked recently on measures of well-being and material deprivation, on income distribution and on various aspects of social policies, and has been the main editor of the past two issues of Society at a Glance – OECD Social Indicators. Since joining the OECD he has worked in other Divisions of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, in the Economics Department and in the Private Office of the OECD Secretary General, as well as spending two years at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Modena and a M.Phil from Oxford University.