When we catch a bus, visit a doctor, borrow a book from the library or enrol in a course we
benefit from the social policies of government. Talking Policy explains how the myriad …

Demographic microsimulation models differ from traditional macrosimulation on two ways.
First, they operate at individual level rather than use aggregate data; second, they produce …

House price inflation has a long tradition in Australia. By international standards the current
housing boom is 'world class'; Australia, along with Britain, heads the OECD league table for …

In 2004, the Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to look at the impact
on the economy and the community of NCP and related reforms and for areas which offer …

The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top
wealth holders, defined as those with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by …

This article uses data from the second wave of the Household, Income and Labour
Dynamics in Australia (or HILDA) Survey to provide an overview of the structure and …

This article reviews and analyses the evidence on the distribution of income and wealth in
Australia since the 1960s. A number of scholars–most prominently among them Thomas …

This article analyses current housing market conditions in Australia; specifically the factors
that have caused increased housing prices in recent years and their implications. The article …

Combining data from surveys, inheritance tax records, and rich lists, we estimate top wealth
shares for A ustralia from World War I until the present day. We find that the top 1 percent …

Over the past few decades Australia, like a number of other countries, has experienced a
significant polarisation of household incomes as a result of social, demographic and …