Economics
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Economy
Economic management
Macroeconomics
Economic policy
Report
New perspectives on old problems: gendered jobs work and pay
The first in a three-part series on new perspectives on gender economic inequality, revealing how much gender shapes jobs, work and pay across Australia. The report highlights the scale of occupational segregation. It finds that despite more women participating in the workforce than ever before, men still earn more than women in 98% of occupations.
Report
National Competition Policy analysis 2025: interim report
This interim report supports the National Competition Policy process by analysing the economic effects of two policy reforms: occupational licensing reform to promote labour mobility and adopting international and overseas standards. These two reforms would promote competition and increase Australia’s gross domestic product.
Report
Examination of the ethical soundness of Pricewaterhouse-Coopers Australia
This report examined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia's ethical soundness in response to the 2023 Tax Practitioners Board's investigation into PwC's head of Australia's international tax. The Department of Finance concludes that PwC Australia has implemented, or is in the process of implementing, appropriate governance, ethical and cultural structures to significantly improve its ethical operation.
Guide
Using your NDIS funding for Customised Employment
This resource has been developed to provide information to families who are supporting their family member to utilise their NDIS funding to implement the Customised Employment approach.
Report
Automation in the Targeted Compliance Framework: when the law is changed but the system isn’t
This report investigated whether the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and Services Australia cancelled job seekers’ income support in a lawful manner by using automated processes and the safeguards they established to ensure future cancellation decisions are lawful, fair and reasonable. It found that the agencies’ cancellation of income support was not lawful and...