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University of Melbourne
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Applied Economics | Labour Economics | Labour Economics | Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods | Panel Data Analysis | Welfare Economics | Welfare Economics | Social Policy And Planning
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Income Distribution | Microeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Economic issues not elsewhere classified | Employment | Microeconomic Effects of Taxation | Micro Labour Market Issues |
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Publications
Household Debt in Australia: The Looming Crisis that Isn’t
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2009
The Effects of Changes in Family Composition and Employment Patterns on the Distribution of Income in Australia: 1982 to 1997-1998
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2003
Gender differences in involuntary job loss: Why are men more likely to lose their jobs?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-03-2013
DOI: 10.1111/IREL.12024
Credential Changes and Education Earnings Premia in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2008
Explaining the Growth in the Number of Recipients of the Disability Support Pension in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2013
Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3934754
Does Income Inequality in Early Childhood Predict Self-Reported Health in Adulthood? A Cross-National Comparison of the United States and Great Britain
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 25-02-2016
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey – GENERAL RELEASE 19 (Waves 1-19)
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.26193/3QRFMZ
Women and Top Incomes in Australia
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 07-11-2017
What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2732906
Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What is the Role of the Uk's SPI Adjustment?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2998977
The Low-Pay No-Pay Cycle: Are There Systematic Differences Across Demographic Groups?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2338263
Are Skills Shortages a Constraint on Increasing Employment in Australia?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2008
Measuring top incomes using tax record data: a cautionary tale from Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-06-2014
Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 20-09-2021
Abstract: We use a new Australian longitudinal income tax dataset, Alife, covering 1991–2017, to examine levels and trends in the persistence in top-income group membership, focussing on the top 1%. We summarize persistence in multiple ways, documenting levels and trends in rates of remaining in top-income groups re-entry to the top the income changes associated with top-income transitions and we also compare top-income persistence rates for annual and ‘permanent’ incomes. Regardless of the perspective taken, top-income persistence increased markedly over the period, with most of the increase occurring in the mid-2000s and early 2010s. In the mid- to late-2010s, Australian top-income persistence rates appear to have been near the top of the range of tax-data estimates for other countries. Using univariate breakdowns and multivariate regression, we show that the rise in top-income persistence in Australia was experienced by many population subgroups. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)
The Impact of Computer-Assisted Interviewing on Interview Length
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2071545
The Effect of Tightening Smoking Regulations on Take-Up and Cessation of Smoking
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1284990
What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2731981
Disability Support Pension Recipients: Who Gets Off (and Stays Off) Payments?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
The effects of disability on labour force status in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2004
The age-earnings structure in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1997
Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Measuring Minimum Award Wage Reliance in Australia: The HILDA Survey Experience
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1846164
How Effective are Matching Schemes in Enticing Low-income Earners to Save More for Retirement? Evidence from a National Scheme
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3742439
Evaluating the evidence on income inequality in Australia in the 2000s
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-01-2013
Credential Changes and Education Earnings Premia in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1280870
Economic Wellbeing
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-08-2021
Abstract: Over its 21 years, the HILDA Survey has assembled an unrivalled array of data on the economic wellbeing of the Australian population. This review summarises the main themes of the published research using this data.
Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4253204
Transitioning from an Historical to a Contemporary Use of Tax Record Data for Measuring Top Incomes in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-04-2018
Top incomes and inequality in the UK: reconciling estimates from household survey and tax return data
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-2017
DOI: 10.1093/OEP/GPX041
Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3082004
Rising top-income persistence in Australia: Evidence from income tax data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3938572
The determinants of household risky asset holdings: Australian evidence on background risk and other factors
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
The low-pay no-pay cycle: Are there systematic differences across demographic groups?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-12-2013
DOI: 10.1111/OBES.12084
Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US: lessons from other OECD nations
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 20-02-2014
Abstract: Unsustainable growth in program costs and beneficiaries, together with a growing recognition that even people with severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable DI program growth in the U.S., show their similarity to the factors that led to unsustainable growth in these other four OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability program. Although each country took a unique path to making and implementing fundamental reforms, shared lessons emerge from their experiences. JEL codes J14, J18
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 18-01-2023
DOI: 10.1086/724157
Evaluating How Mental Health Changed in Australia through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the ‘Taking the Pulse of the Nation’ (TTPN) Survey
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-01-2022
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health at the level of the population. The current study adds to the evidence base by examining how the prevalence of psychological distress changed in Australia during the pandemic. The study also assesses the psychometric properties of a new single-item measure of mental distress included in a survey program conducted regularly throughout the pandemic. Data are from 1158 respondents in wave 13 (early July 2020) of the nationally representative Taking the Pulse of the Nation (TTPN) Survey. The questionnaire included the six-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6) and a new single-item measure of distress. Results show a significant increase in the prevalence of psychological distress in Australia, from 6.3% pre-pandemic to 17.7% in early July 2020 (unadjusted odds ratio = 3.19 95% CI (confidence interval) = 2.51 to 4.05). The new single-item measure of distress is highly correlated with the K6. This study provides a snapshot at one point in time about how mental health worsened in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, by demonstrating the accuracy of the new single-item measure of distress, this analysis also provides a basis for further research examining the trajectories and correlates of distress in Australia across the pandemic.
Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1977811
The Sources of Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1974748
Perceived Job Discrimination in Australia: Its Correlates and Consequences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2244601
Earnings inequality in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1996
Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD Countries
Publisher: Oxford University PressNew York
Date: 11-2023
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190241599.003.0007
Abstract: This chapter summarizes and discusses developments and policy changes in the public disability benefit systems of five countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, and Australia—over the past five decades. All five countries experienced substantial increases in their disability recipiency rates (beneficiaries as a share of the working-age population) at some point after 1970, followed by plateaus and, eventually, declines. This pattern reflects a commonality in the evolution of their disability benefit policies: a period of expanding eligibility standards and/or benefits was followed by rising recipiency rates. These rising rates triggered policy reforms that tightened eligibility standards and/or benefits again, which reduced growth rates and, eventually, recipiency rates.
The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.807466
Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4261741
How Effective are Matching Schemes in Enticing Low-Income Earners to Save More for Retirement? Evidence from a National Scheme
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3747458
Two Decades of Change: The Australian Labour Market, 1993-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2014
Measuring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Australia: A Proposed Multidimensional Framework for Identifying Socio-Economic Disadvantage
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1639867
Design Matters: The Impact of CAPI on Interview Length
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-05-2015
Abstract: Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) offers many attractive benefits over paper-and-pencil interviewing. There is, however, mixed evidence on the impact of CAPI on interview length, an important survey outcome in the context of length limits imposed by survey budgets and concerns over respondent burden. In this article, recent experimental and quasi-experimental evidence derived from a large, nationally representative household panel study is used to investigate CAPI’s impact on interview length. We find that effects very much depend on how CAPI is implemented, including the hardware and software adopted, the extent and nature of dependent data, and even interviewer workloads—a finding that helps explain the conflicting results from previous studies. Overall, our study leads us to the conclusion that, absent dependent data, CAPI is likely to increase interview lengths, but the potential reductions from dependent data are very large, such that even modest levels can lead to net reductions in interview lengths.
The Determinants of Household Risky Asset Holdings: Australian Evidence on Background Risk and Other Factors
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1280885
Minimum wages and the working poor
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2007
The ATO Longitudinal Information Files (ALife): A New Resource for Retirement Policy Research
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2020
The net benefit to government of higher education: a balance sheet aproach
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2002
Survey Under‐Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-02-2018
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3690141
The Changing Socio-Demographic Composition of Poverty in Australia: 1982 to 2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3088935
What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3690066
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3691397
Reliance on income support in Australia: prevalence and persistance
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2002
Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data: A Cautionary Tale from Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2289117
Economic Approaches to Studying Underemployment
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2011
The Causes of Changes in the Distribution of Family Income in Australia, 1982 to 1997-98
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1728570
Does part-time employment help or hinder single mothers' movements into full-time employment?
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-10-2012
DOI: 10.1093/OEP/GPS035
What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3627061
Measuring Social Exclusion in Australia: Assessing Existing Data Sources
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-11-2010
Experimental Change from Paper-Based Interviewing to Computer-Assisted Interviewing in the Hilda Survey
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2018624
What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3632624
Does early-life income inequality predict self-reported health in later life? Evidence from the United States
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2014.12.026
Abstract: We investigate the association between adult health and the income inequality they experienced as children up to 80 years earlier. Our inequality data track shares of national income held by top percentiles from 1913 to 2009. We average those data over the same early-life years and merge them to in idual data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data for 1984-2009. Controlling for demographic and economic factors, we find both men and women are statistically more likely to report poorer health if income was more unequally distributed during the first years of their lives. The association is robust to alternative specifications of income inequality and time trends and remains significant even when we control for differences in overall childhood health. Our results constitute prima facie evidence that adults' health may be adversely affected by the income inequality they experienced as children.
Measuring Income Inequality in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-02-2015
Effects of Tightening Smoking Regulations on Take-up and Cessation of Smoking
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2011
Estimates of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Australia: A Multidimensional Approach
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1639872
What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 06-07-2020
Abstract: The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by their greater increases (relative to men) in the number of years spent in full-time education. Although most top income analysis uses tax return data, we derive our findings taking advantage of the much more extensive information about personal characteristics that is available in survey data. Our use of survey data requires justification given survey under-coverage of top incomes. Providing this justification is our second contribution. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3692392
Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK’s SPI Adjustment?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2991427
Does Coordination of Welfare Services’ Delivery Make a Difference for Extremely Disadvantaged Jobseekers? Evidence from the 'YP4' Trial
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2245320
Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 22-11-2022
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2244556/V1
Abstract: We produce estimates of the full distribution of all national income in Australia for the period 1991 to 2018, by combining household survey with administrative tax microdata and adjusting to match National Accounts aggregates. From these estimates, we are able to rigorously document the shifts in income shares over the period, contrasting changes in the distribution of pre-tax and post-tax national income. Comparing Australia to the US and to France, we also compare our new results to traditional household survey-based estimates of inequality. Moreover, we exploit the richness of our unique microdata to shed light on the distribution of national income across and within various population groups not usually identifiable in the tax datasets that underpin reliable top-income estimates. Among our most surprising findings, inequality of post-tax national income is less than inequality of survey-based (post-transfer, disposable) income for Australia. The gender gap in income has stubbornly remained over the past three decades. Finally, we find that Australian inequality of national income is much lower than that of the United States, while it is similar to that of France, although those at the bottom of the income distribution fare better in France than in Australia. JEL Codes: D31, D33, E01
What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1%?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/ROIW.12548
Abstract: The share of women in the top 1 percent of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this trend using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1 percent, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1 percent is primarily accounted for by their greater increases in the number of years spent in full‐time education. Although most top income analysis uses tax return data, we derive our findings taking advantage of the much more extensive information about personal characteristics that is available in survey data. Our use of survey data requires justification given survey under‐coverage of top incomes. Providing this justification is our second contribution.
Immigrant Earnings Adjustment: The Impact of Age at Migration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2003
Intensity and persistence of individuals' social exclusion in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2013
The Ato Longitudinal Information Files (Alife): A New Resource for Retirement Policy Research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3582216
Measuring the Adequacy of Retirement Savings
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2017
DOI: 10.1111/ROIW.12307
The Consequences of Underemployment for the Underemployed
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2007
Abstract: Underemployment is generally conceived as excess labour supply associated with employed persons — that is, as a situation where employed persons would like to work more hours at prevailing wage rates. Using information collected by the 2001 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, this study examines the effects of underemployment on outcomes such as income, welfare dependence and subjective well-being. Results obtained imply that, while unemployment clearly has greater adverse consequences, underemployment is nonetheless associated with significant detrimental effects on the outcomes examined. Negative effects are found for both part-time employed and full-time employed workers who would prefer to work more hours, but effects are greater for underemployed part-time workers, and are particularly large for part-time workers who would like to work full-time. Indeed, for part-time workers seeking full-time employment, adverse effects attributable to underemployment are, for some outcomes, not far short of those attributable to unemployment.
Does Part-Time Employment Help or Hinder Lone Mothers’ Movements into Full-Time Employment?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1639870
Rising top-income persistence in Australia: Evidence from income tax data
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-12-2022
DOI: 10.1111/ROIW.12628
Abstract: Using income tax administrative data for Australia, we examine levels and trends in the persistence in top‐income group membership, focusing on the top 1 percent. Top‐income persistence increased markedly between 1991 and 2018, with most of the increase occurring in the mid‐2000s and early 2010s. In the mid‐ to late‐2010s, Australian top‐income persistence rates were near the top of the range of tax‐data estimates for other countries. We decompose the increase into factors associated with (i) changes in the composition of the top‐income group and (ii) increases in persistence rates for specific population subgroups. We find that the rise in top‐income persistence is accounted for by changes in subgroup persistence rates, notably for in iduals aged 35–64, and especially those aged 55–64. We suggest that these effects are partially related to increases in the effective retirement age over the relevant period.
Effects of Temporary In-Work Benefits for Welfare Recipients: Examination of the Australian Working Credit Programme
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2012
Top Incomes and Inequality in Australia: Reconciling Recent Estimates from Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2790672
Taking the Pulse of the Nation: Validating a single-item measure of mental distress
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3872224
Disability Benefit Growth and Disability Reform in the U.S.: Lessons from Other OECD Nations
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Date: 13-12-2013
DOI: 10.24148/WP2013-40
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