Controversy over the setting of poverty lines and its narrow focus on income has undermined the influence of poverty research on policy. The deprivation approach overcomes these limitations by identifying deprivation as an inability to afford items that receive majority support for being...

Australian research on poverty and income distribution has been subject to criticism over definitional, data quality and measurement issues that have undermined its validity and impact. In reviewing these issues, this paper addresses some of the problems that have been identified in the...

This paper brings new evidence to bear on the question of changes in income distribution among individuals in Australia between 1942-43 and 1989-90. The changes observed over this period are analyzed in the context of previous studies of the changing distribution of income in Australia over the...

R. Reich (1991) argues that globalization will increase the relative earnings of those whose occupation involves identifying and solving problems and managing ideas. Hence, the return to education, especially education in the form of a university degree, will rise. This paper examines the return...