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Why the Henry Review Fails on Family Tax Reform

Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

While acknowledging the importance of fairness and the need to avoid creating disincentives in the design of tax reform, the Henry Review recommends a simplified Personal Income Tax and child payments withdrawn on a single family income test. This paper shows that the proposed reforms would...

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Tax Reform, Targeting and the Tax Burden on Women

Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In the early 1980’s Australia had a highly progressive, individual based income tax and families received support for dependent children in the form of universal family allowances. The introduction of income tests for child support payments based on family income (now in the form of Family Tax...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

equations. To estimate the model we use data drawn from the 2002-03 Italian Time Use Survey, combined with earnings information …

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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...

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Income Distribution, Redistribution and Incentives

Apps, P. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

The available empirical evidence indicates that the distribution of private income in Australia is polarising. While there are a number of factors underlying this trend, it is clear that the dramatic swing to "economic rationalist" policies since the mid 1980s has been a major cause of the...

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Earnings Inequality in Australia.

Borland, J.; Kennedy, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

This study examines changes in earnings inequality for full-time employees in Australia between 1982 and 1994-95 using … individual-level data from the ABS Income Distribution Survey. It present measures of changes in earnings inequality for … disaggregated workforce groups. It also provides assessment of causes of changes in earnings inequality. …

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The Role of Government in Work and Welfare

Keating, M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

Societies typically have three objectives for work and welfare: sustained income/economic growth per capita, employment growth (and job security?), a just distribution of income along with access to certain basic services. There may be tensions between these objectives. This paper tries to...

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Earnings Inequality in Australia: Changes, Causes and Consequences.

Borland, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

This paper studies the changes in earnings inequality. It also examines the causes and consequences of this changes. …

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Who Gets Minimum Wages?

Richardson, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

There have been rising levels of inequality in the earnings distribution in some OECD countries (principally the … in earnings inequality, but not to the degree that the US, Canada and the UK have. It has also shared in the rise in …

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