The Australian government implemented a series of new private health insurance policies between 1997 and 2000. As a result, the proportion of the population with private health insurance coverage increased by more than 35%. However, this paper finds significant evidence that the policy reform...

Although employment levels in Australia are healthy when compared to those 20 years ago, the distribution of work across households has become more unequal. The present paper measures any polarisation of employment that has taken place in Australian households between 1982 and 2000/01. We find...

Since the 1960s, substantial increases in unemployment, female participation and employment, part-time employment, and persons working long hours have produced a wider distribution of work between individuals in the Australian labor market. A widening distribution of work between income units...

This paper compares a stylized version of a basic income flat tax system (BI/FT) with a means tested graduated tax system (MT/GT), with particular attention paid to potential labor supply effects of taxes. A highly simplified simulation model is developed in which individuals are homogeneous...

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The author of this paper was one of the members of the Reference Group that produced the McClure Report that recommended a simplified income support system as well as improved work incentives, as well as increased economic and social participation requirements on welfare recipients, and enhanced...