1. OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs MATERIAL CONDITIONS WORKSHOP 1a “Income inequalities” Chair: Michael Förster, OECD Social Policy Division Panelists: Mario Pianta, University of Urbino, Italy Anne-Catherine Guio, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg Denis Leythienne and Liviana Mattonetti, Eurostat European Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies Paris, France, 26 - 28 June 2012

2. 2 Levels of household income: country rankings differ at different points of the distribution Source: Divided we Stand, OECD 2011

3. 3 Income inequality and income poverty: huge differences across OECD countries

4. 4 What causes growing inequality, what are the consequences for well-being, and what are the lessons for policies ?  Mario Pianta How to link macro aggregates of income with social statistics and make them distribution sensitive?  Denis Leythienne and Liviana Mattonetti Going beyond “income” to measure and analyse material deprivation and social exclusion  Anne-Catherine Guio Presentation and discussion around three themes: