The recently enacted Japanese long-term care (LTC) system was implemented to reduce the so-called “social hospitalization” or warehousing of the elderly in expensive medical facilities. This paper seeks to evaluate recent patterns in Japanese LTC use and examine the factors associated with...

This paper summarises the available evidence on the present-day distribution of wealth in Australia, and draws comparison with international evidence. With this as background, I argue that an initiative to collect more up-to-date information on Australia's wealth distribution would be most...

The budgetary cost of any government program should be measured by its impact on the public sector budget balance, over its effective time frame. Typically, official cost estimates focus on the value of outlays only, and thus create a misleading impression of the opportunity cost of some policy...