The Transition to Retirement Income Streams (TRIS) program is a novel approach to incentivise the labour supply of older workers. This paper considers the effect of the program in the context of a life cycle model and empirically examines the effects on labour supply and...

In this paper, the authors argue that COVID-19 has highlighted that existing policies do not meet the needs of people who face entrenched disadvantage.

This research summary brings together the findings from a Brotherhood of St Laurence study exploring how Australia’s jobactive employment services might better assist mature age jobseekers to get work.

Analysis of interviews with jobactive staff showed that employment services staff face considerable challenges and competing demands.

Analysis of interviews with mature age jobseekers showed that there is disjunction between what these jobseekers say they need from employment services and what they get.

In a changed labour market and with an ageing population, understanding the attitudes and needs of employers is vital to assisting unemployed older Australians to get and keep jobs.

In April 2011 the federal government established an Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians to ensure the potential of the older members of our community is considered in a range of policy debates. The objective behind establishing the Panel was to identify...