This paper investigates how the tax-transfer system replaces lost income after job loss. It uses e61’s tax calculator to estimate the lost income replaced by benefit payments and lower taxes paid following job loss (the income replacement rate). The paper also explores what will happen to replacement rates if payment rates were changed.

This report analyses the impact that a net zero emissions target could have on jobs across federal electorates in the eastern states.

The research outlined in this briefing paper confirms that Australian workers in casual and insecure jobs have borne the lion’s share of job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic – both the first lockdowns in 2020, and the more recent second wave of closures.

Eighteen months after Australia's borders were first closed, things are getting worse for universities, not better. This research confirms that tertiary education has been hit by bigger job losses this year than any other non-agricultural sector in the economy.

In this paper, the authors explain how displacement harms workers’ mental health and economic security in the short term and negatively affects their earnings and mortality risk in the long term.