The report examines the barriers that students in Australia from five socio-economic groups may face when progressing through their career. The study found that, among the five socio-economic groups analysed, graduates from non-English-speaking backgrounds faced the most significant labour market challenges. The results show a need for targeted support for individuals from non-English speaking backgrounds.

This paper estimates and compares the returns to education in Australia using standard Mincer equations for the years 2006, 2011, and 2016.

This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size of regression discontinuities. We also propose a bootstrapping...

Measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women's labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child care price elasticities that are statistically significant, negative and in line with...

This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners’ job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market because of failed searches) for married women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. It focuses on the partners’ involuntary job loss experiences, and...