This article evaluates the Australian tax-transfer system in an international comparative perspective, discussing the distributional profile of Australian transfers compared with those in other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, and assessing the efficiency and...

D. Mitchell, A. Harding, and F. Gruen (1994) survey the redistributive impact of Australia's targeted social security system using Luxembourg Income Study data. They argue that the Australian system has the highest target efficiency among ten countries but the lowest benefit generosity (after...

Equivalence scales are measures of the relative incomes required by households of different size and composition to attain a similar standard of living, and are used in analysis of consumer expenditure patterns as well as in judging the appropriateness of the structure of income maintenance...