The report focuses on women today and how their social and economic status has changed and evolved over time, and what differences can be seen between them and their male counterparts.The gender divide in Australia has narrowed over the past 20 years but there is much more to be done as a man still has...

This twenty-first AMP.NATSEM report looks at Australian tertiary students today – who they are, how they meet the costs of living while they study, how much they pay for university compared to the rest of the world, how their HECS debts get repaid and the financial value of a tertiary qualification over their lifetime. A...

This paper uses microdata and NATSEM's microsimulation models to examine the spatial distribution of poverty among older single people and to test the likely impact upon national and small area poverty rates of an increase in the single age pension rate. In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about whether the age...

This study shows that there has been rapid change in many of the characteristics of households in the top decile group of the Australian income distribution over the decade to 2005-06. Compared to ten years earlier, the heads of households at the top of the income spectrum are now very much more likely to hold...

The housing industry price bubble, coupled with rising interest rates, has resulted in more Australians struggling to buy and also then to pay off their home. Perhaps best demonstrating this struggle is that over the past decade outright home ownership dropped by about nine percentage points to 34.3 per cent. When you add to this...