Labour Economics and Social Policy:
Income Distribution
Projects completed in 2016
Projects completed in 2015
- Decomposing inequality changes: Allowing for leisure in the evaluation of tax and transfer policy effects
- Explaining the equalising effect of panel-income changes
Projects completed in 2014
- Understanding changes in the distribution and redistribution of income: A unifying decomposition framework
- Recent trends in income redistribution in Australia: Can changes in the tax–benefit system account for the decline in redistribution?
Projects completed in 2010
Projects completed in 2009
- Wage transitions of apprentices
- The factors that influence wage progression
- The effects of the tax and social security system on labour supply and social welfare
- Combining income support and earnings
Projects completed in 2008
Projects completed in 2007
Projects completed in 2005
- The dynamics and persistence of income poverty in Australia
- Cohort and distributional analysis of wealthy Australians
- Financial stress, wealth, poverty and indebtedness
Projects completed in 2004
- Melbourne Institute Report on the 2004 Federal Budget
- The structure and distribution of household wealth
- 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
- Money and subjective well-being (Working Paper 03/2004, Working Paper 15/2004)
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)
- Effects of family composition and worklessness on the distribution of income and expenditure (Working Paper 19/2003)
- Income poverty in Australia
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)
- The polarisation of work and poverty across Australian households: An empirical study (Working Paper 09/2002)
- International comparison of trends in the polarisation of employment
- Understanding and improving data quality relating to low income households