Economic modelling
Report
Mapping the potential: understanding persistent disadvantage to inform community change
This report is about potential more than it is about poverty, and about modelling as much as it is about measuring. By looking at how Australians may experience disadvantage, beyond the economic dimension, the researchers have been able to provide a much richer understanding of disadvantage and how we might impact it.
Working paper
Sustainable and equitable pensions with means testing in ageing economies
A means-tested pension system has a distinct feature that tailors the level of pension benefits according to individual status.
Article
Young people dropping private health hurts insurers most, not public hospitals
New private health insurance data show young people are continuing to drop their cover. But the industry's argument a youth exodus will put pressure on public hospitals isn't necessarily right.
Report
Australia's export exposure to China's coronavirus epidemic
This paper estimates the direct and immediate effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the revenues of Australia’s major export industries. It breaks down Australia’s exports to China across 18 major industry groups, including both goods and services exports.
Report
The super freeze: what you’ve lost
This analysis looks at the rate of real wage growth in the five years since the implementation of the freeze on the Superannuation Guarantee rate and quantifies the amount of superannuation workers have lost as a result of the freeze.