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...

Teachers play a key role during the pivotal early stages of a child’s life. But do all Australian children have the same access to such teachers? In this paper, the authors shed new light on this question by examining the prior academic achievement (ATAR) of secondary school teachers in New South Wales.