Labour Economics and Social Policy: Policy Papers
These research papers explore the outcomes of one or more specific policies, using modelling providing by the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator.
The papers differ from the MITTS technical papers, which provide information on the underlying assumptions and mechanics of the modelling.
Projects completed in 2014
Projects completed in 2013
- The effects of income support on incentives to work
- Understanding changes in progressivity and redistributive effects: The role of tax–transfer policies and labour supply decisions
Projects completed in 2009
- Linking a dynamic CGE model and a microsimulation model: Climate change mitigation policies and income distribution in Australia
- Optimal marginal income tax reforms: A microsimulation analysis
Projects completed in 2008
- Tax policy design and the role of a tax-free threshold
- Abolishing the tax-free threshold in Australia: Simulating alternative reforms
Projects completed in 2007
- Childcare demand and household labour supply after 2000
- The effect of an alternative childcare subsidy on labour supply: A policy simulation
- Comparing welfare change measures with income change measures in behavioural policy simulations
Projects completed in 2005
- The effect of financial incentives on labour supply: Evidence for sole parents from microsimulation and quasi-experimental evaluation
- Social Policy Research at the Melbourne Institute, 2000–2005
Projects completed in 2004
- The effect of childcare costs on labour supply: an analysis using ABS data and MITTS
- Melbourne Institute Report on the 2004 Federal Budget
- The Melbourne Institute analysis of the Australian Labor Party’s Tax and Family Benefits Package
- Behavioural microsimulation modelling with the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator (MITTS): Uses and extensions
- Bracket creep, effective marginal tax rates and alternative tax packages
- Incentives of the current system for single and married mothers
- The estimation of a New Zealand wage equation and labour supply model (Working Paper 13/2003, New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 03/13, New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 03/23)
Projects completed in 2003
- A policy simulation of aspects of the tax system using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator
- Effects of the Working Nation social security reforms: A policy simulation using MITTS (Working Paper)
- The effects of childcare costs on labour supply
Projects completed in 2002
- A policy simulation of aspects of the tax system using MITTS: Interim project (Working Paper 08/2002, Working Paper 24/2002, Working Paper 25/2002, Working Paper 26/2002)
Projects completed in 2001
- Modelling the labour supply effects of a negative income tax for Australia, and its equity and efficiency implications
- Unemployment: Economic analysis and policy modelling