This report was written by Valerie Frey, under the supervision of Monika Queisser, Senior Counsellor and Head of Social Policy at the OECD; Mark Pearson, Deputy Director of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs; and Stefano Scarpetta, Director of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs.
Adriana Rakshana, Chris Clarke, and Maxime Ladaique provided valuable statistical support at various stages of data collection and analysis. Liv Gudmundson led the publication process and layout design. Fatima Perez and Alastair Wood were also instrumental in publication and dissemination.
The report benefitted from useful feedback from Delegates to the OECD Working Party on Social Policy and the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, as well as Emanuele Ciani, Sarah Kups, Veerle Miranda and Marissa Plouin of the OECD.
The project was financially supported by member countries’ voluntary contributions. Academic researchers at the University of Konstanz (Marius Busemeyer, Sebastian Koos and Florian Kunze) and the University of Lausanne (Carlo Knotz, Mia Gandenberger, Maude Lavanchy, Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati, Rafael Lalive, Joël Wagner and the Center Enterprise 4 Society) provided constructive feedback on questionnaire content and design and financially supported subsections of the survey. On the part of the University of Konstanz team, financial support from the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Grant No. EXC 2035/1) is gratefully acknowledged.