Josie Misko compares the provision of vocational education and training in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. She finds that training policies are increasingly based on similar general principles which promote the improvement and reform of vocational education and training, although the implementation of these principles tends to remain specific to each country.

Under HECS former students with a debt face a sharp discontinuity. At the first repayment threshold they are required to repay a percentage of their entire income, resulting in an effective marginal tax rate that could be regarded as being as high as 76,000 percent. The authors formally model the taxpayer decision, and then use...

Kate Sullivan of the UK Electoral Commission reviews who can vote in the United Kingdom and finds that the franchise is much more expansive in Britain than in Australia.

The 2005 British election was held on 5 May. Scott Bennett reviews the campaign, the results and the fall-out, and looks at the controversy over Britain's first-past-the-post voting system.

With many countries considering the adoption of a system of earned income tax credits, it is useful to analyse how different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. Andrew Leigh focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system, which increased the value of the credit and reduced the phase-out rate. Using...