The report was produced in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, under the senior leadership of Stefano Scarpetta (Director), Mark Pearson (Deputy Director) and Monika Queisser (Senior Counsellor and Head of Social Policy). The report was co‑ordinated by Valerie Frey (Senior Economist).
Chapter 1 in this report was authored by Valerie Frey; Chapter 2 by Valerie Frey and Raphaela Hyee; Chapter 3 by Valerie Frey, Raphaela Hyee and Pablo Minondo Canto; and Chapters 4 and 5 by Dorothy Adams. Sarah Kups made substantial contributions to Chapter 4 and Maja Gustafsson made substantial contributions to Chapter 5. A companion paper on the accessibility and value of social safety nets will be published to accompany this report.
The project was kindly funded by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea. The Secretariat thanks Cho Minjeong, Choi In Jung, Kim Yeongseo and colleagues in the Ministry for their support in co‑ordinating this report.
The OECD team would like to thank country experts from Belgium, Chile, Estonia, France, Ireland and Spain for sharing information on national strategies to improve the accessibility of social protection. The report also benefitted from exchanges with experts in Chile, New Zealand, Canada, Czechia and the International Social Security Association on the use of digital technologies and data in social protection.
The authors thank Willem Adema, Hans Dubois, Rodrigo Fernandez, Herwig Immervoll, Annelore Verhagen, Barry Sandison, Eric Sutherland, Maxime Ladaique, Marissa Plouin, Mark Pearson, Monika Queisser, Stefano Scarpetta, and Jasmin Thomas for their ideas and feedback. Natalie Corry, Hanna Varkki and Marie‑Aurélie Elkurd provided valuable communication, publication and logistics support.