Inequality



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

We live in strange economic times. Over the last few years, Australian business profits have boomed just as economic growth has trended down to ‘ultra-low’… Read More ›

The Great Fiscal Shift: Inequality, Upwards Redistribution and the Politics of Surplus Since Howard

Earlier this year former prime minister John Howard described Australia’s middle class as the “biggest,” proportionally speaking, in the world. Speaking at the annual dinner… Read More ›

A Snapshot of Life in the Middle Class

Economists have known for a while that increasing globalisation leads to substantial but unequal gains and creates winners and losers. This rising inequality could be… Read More ›

Globalisation-Induced Tax Changes

If the 2019-20 Federal Budget is, as widely reported, going to set the tone for the next Federal Election, then it doesn’t appear likely that… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] A Budget That Supports Indigenous Australians?

The release of the Australian budget next week is so much more than a series of financial statements. It is a statement of what the… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] Coalition and Labor Voters Share Policy Priorities When They Are Informed About Inequality

Spending on social security and welfare accounts for more than a third of the Commonwealth budget. Because of its size, it has been one of… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2019] Future Budgets Are Going to Have to Spend More on Welfare, Which Is Fine. It’s Spending on Us

The use of both industrial and service robots has been expanding rapidly during the past decade. There is little doubt that this is leading to… Read More ›

Automation and Income Inequality in a World of International Rivalry

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