This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family’s socioeconomic circumstances. It addresses this issue using detailed survey data on intergenerational coresidence and financial transfers merged with nearly a decade of administrative data on the family’s...

This paper looks at what incentives might help policymakers to address the unbalanced supply of doctors across specialties. A number of studies suggest there is an over-supply of specialists and an under-supply of GPs in many developed countries. Previous econometric studies of specialty choice from the US suggest that a number of factors play a...

A significant demographic trend in recent decades in Australia has been the growth in lone parent families as a proportion of all families, associated with which has been growth in welfare dependency. This has led to considerable policy focus on increasing lone parent participation in employment. A key issue that has arisen for the Government...

The extent of poverty and social exclusion in Australia is measured using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. For each individual, the authors construct a measure of social exclusion that recognises its multidimensionality, including its potential variability in depth at a point in time and in persistence over time...

This paper explores the potential use of environmental taxes in Australia in addition to the broad based and larger revenue raising taxes on income, consumption and assets. Environmental taxes are one of the available policy intervention instruments for correcting market failures with the allocation of and investment decisions for the environment. Effective environmental taxes provide...