Age Pension



The key challenge for the Australian retirement income system is how to take full advantage of its Defined Contribution basis (including inter-generational equity and financial… Read More ›

Retirement Income Review: Focus More on Secure Retirement Income Streams, and Settle the Adequacy Debate

Artworks contribute to the creation of distinct national cultures and to economic growth. National art collections attract tourists. Local government commonly relies on the arts… Read More ›

Towards Optimal Tax-Benefits Treatment of Collectors of Artworks

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

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