Welfare state
Report
Poverty in Australia 2020 - part 2: who is affected?
This report provides the human face of poverty in Australia and explains who is most affected and at risk. Looked at through the varied aspects of life – our age, gender, family relationships, paid work and sources of income, disability and other characteristics - the report provides an insight into who really lives in poverty...
Report
The decades of disruption: new social risks and the future of the welfare state
A number of major disruptive forces will transform life in the United Kingdom and globally in the 2020s and beyond, creating a new set of social risks.
Working paper
Transitioning from JobKeeper
The JobKeeper scheme aims to provide financial assistance to those in danger of being laid off, and to assist business to stay afloat until more familiar economic and employment activity resumes. This paper addresses the question of how the JobKeeper program might be wound down at the end of its full subsidy term.
Article
The coronavirus supplement is the biggest boost to Indigenous incomes since Whitlam. It should be made permanent
The Coronavirus temporary increase to income support should be made permanent to assist with Indigenous Australians currently living in poverty.
Working paper
The fiscal impact of immigration: a review of the evidence
This review brings together the existing empirical evidence on the fiscal impact of immigration. It is the first to synthesise empirical studies from both high- as well as low- and middle-income countries.