Age Pension



Income inequality in most high-income countries has increased considerably since the 1970s, creating interest in the drivers of this trend. One factor that has attracted… Read More ›

Winners of the UK Tax-Benefit Reforms over Five Decades

Many social security systems across the world link pension benefits to earnings. The rules vary significantly across countries and pension schemes, ranging from purely unfunded… Read More ›

Means-Testing and Temptation: How Self-Control Affects the Welfare Effects of Various Social Security Arrangements

The Australian Labor Party went to the 2019 Federal Election proposing a change in policy under which retirees not receiving an aged pension could only… Read More ›

What Dividend Imputation Means for Retirement Savers

At the heart of the debate over higher compulsory superannuation sit big trade-offs that are too rarely acknowledged. Boosting retirement incomes inevitably comes at a… Read More ›

On Any View, the Case for Higher Compulsory Super Hasn’t Been Made

There is a case for not proceeding with, or at least further deferring, the legislated increase in employers’ compulsory superannuation contributions, the Superannuation Guarantee, from… Read More ›

Grattan Institute Attacks the Wrong Target – Pension Assets Test Is the Problem

Professor Podger’s main criticism of my paper with Iskhakov is that the income and asset taper rates that we assume in our model are far… Read More ›

Modelling the Age Pension Taper: Reply to Andrew Podger

Michael Keane’s recent Austaxpolicy piece, Better Targeting of Australia’s Age Pension, based on a CEPAR working paper co-written with Fedor Iskhakov, is flawed because it… Read More ›

No Case for Tightening the Age Pension Means Test: A Response to Michael Keane’s Analysis

It’s almost a decade since the Henry Review of the tax system recommended an increase in Newstart payments, with new rules designed to help them… Read More ›

Is Newstart Really the Pacesetter Scott Morrison Says It Is?

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