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The Australian Government has announced it will refund $721 million worth of welfare debts it raised through the controversial method of averaging ATO income data… Read More ›

New analysis of poverty in Australia finds that, before COVID-19, households with children with a female main income earner were more than twice as likely… Read More ›

Who’s hit hardest by the economic effects of COVID-19?, Melbourne Institute Research Insight No. 10/20 By Roger Wilkins (Melbourne Institute) Abstract The COVID-19 crisis has… Read More ›

Recovery from the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives, jobs, businesses and the wider economy is likely to be lengthy, challenging and… Read More ›

Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, passed away on Saturday (23 May 2020) at age 63. He was well… Read More ›

The Australian Government’s JobKeeper program is now expected to cost $70 billion instead of $130 billion. Last week, the ATO and Treasury advised the Government… Read More ›

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) has launched a new online publication, Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers,… Read More ›

The Melbourne Institute has been running a weekly survey, Taking the Pulse of the Nation, to track the economic and social wellbeing of Australians living… Read More ›

Understanding the rising trend in female labour force participation, TTPI Working Paper 5/2020 By Nicolas Herault & Guyonne Kalb (University of Melbourne) Abstract: Female labour… Read More ›

The Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-Employed By Professor Nicholas Biddle, Ben Edwards, Professor Matthew Gray and Kate Sollis (ANU Centre for Social Research… Read More ›