This policy brief summarises key findings on gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, from the OECD report Gender equality in a changing world, identifying relevant social, economic and institutional factors preventing gender equality. It closes with relevant policy options to reduce gender gaps in paid and unpaid work.

This report presents the findings from the Independent Review of Complexity in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health practitioners. The recommendations set out four key transformation directions, supported by 26 specific actions to advance these.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of tax reform trends, offering cross-country comparisons and tracking policy developments over time. This edition describes tax reforms implemented in 2024 across 86 jurisdictions, including all OECD countries. It finds that governments increasingly implemented reforms to raise revenues for specific spending needs – most notably linked to population ageing.

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.

Education and training choices, skills, outcomes and pathways – like jobs, work and pay – are highly gendered in Australia. This report provides insights on these education and training divides. It shows that gendered patterns in education and training remain deeply entrenched, with little sign of change that could shift Australia’s occupational gender segregation.