Inequality, Prosperity and the Australian Welfare State is a Discovery Project funded by the Australian Research Council involving researchers at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales. The project aims to contribute to social policy by improving understanding of the impact of the Australian welfare state on the distribution of income and economic resources, in historical perspective and currently.
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Summary
The main focus of the Social Policy Institute is on the effectiveness of the Australian social security system in reducing inequality and poverty, and related research on international comparisons of tax and transfer systems and their impact on income redistribution.
Report to the Robodebt Royal Commission
Whiteford, P. (2023)
“Timing it right or timing it wrong: How should income-tested benefits deal with changes in circumstances?”
Millar, J. and P. Whiteford (2020), Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
“Social Security since Henderson”, in P. Saunders (Ed), Social Security Reform: Revisiting Henderson and Basic Income
Whiteford, P. (2019), Melbourne University Press
Distribution of welfare spending and taxation in Australia
Peter Whiteford, August 2014
Working papers
Xiaogong Gong, Robert V. Breunig, October 2013 - Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives paper no. 03/2013
Robert V. Breunig, Syed Hasan, Mosfegus Salehin, October 2013 - The Immigrant Wage Gap and Assimilation in Australia: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? paper no. 02/2013
J. Rob Bray, October 2013 - Reflections on the Evolution of the Minimum Wage in Australia: Options for the Future paper no. 01/2013
Presentations
Australia: Inequality and Prosperity in a Radical Welfare State
Presentation to Secretary’s Seminar Series, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 13 June 2013
Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy
Director, Social Policy Institute
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