the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e …

the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income taxbased data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e …

-occupation credential changes on estimates of education earnings premia in Australia over time. Our focus is on credential changes within …We find that post-school education earnings premia have remained strikingly stable over the 1981 to 2003-04 period in … Australia. This stability is in sharp contrast to the rising college premium observed in the US. The observed stability in …

of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher …