Does new housing provided by the private market increase the availability of affordable housing? Or should government policy subsidise housing and directly target low-income households to increase affordability? The answer depends on how quickly housing becomes more affordable as it ages and this is explored in this paper.

This report questions whether payroll taxes affect firm growth by examining a recent cut in South Australia’s payroll tax rate for small businesses. The tax cut may have been counterproductive because it introduced a sharp increase in tax rates for firms with payrolls between $1.5m and $1.7m which made it less attractive for firms to...

Youth mental health has been on the decline since the early 2010s. Is social media to blame? The e61 Institute sheds new light on this question by analysing drivers of mental health in this submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society.

Australian women earn on average 15% less per hour than men. But what drives this pay gap? Is it rooted in different occupational choices between men and women? Or does it reflect differences in pay across genders for identical occupations? The authors of this paper answer these questions using population-wide taxation data covering the Australian...

One common critique of the unemployment rate in Australia is that it understates the true level of spare capacity in the economy by excluding individuals who are willing and able to work, but are currently classified as Not in the Labour Force (NILF). The author of this paper outlines some alternative approaches for measuring unemployment.