OECD - Household Disposable Income
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides a comprehensive dataset on household disposable income, a key indicator of economic well-being and purchasing power. This dataset is frequently used as a source for economic models and analyses, such as the cross-country comparison of work-leisure choices in Figure 3.25 and the historical analysis of US labor supply in Figure 3.16. Researchers typically cite the access date to specify the version of the data used.
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