Comments on Intergenerational Report, 2002 -03

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25 June 2002Prepared by Peter McDonald and Steve Dowrick, this analysis of the federal government's Intergenerational Report suggest that the report reaches unduly pessimistic conclusions by understating the effect of a fall in unemployment, greatly underestimating the potential for future increases in labour force
participation rates, and presenting an unduly certain picture of the levels of future costs of health and
aged care.

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