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ABSTRACT A key concern about population aging is the decline in the size of the economically active population. Working longer is a potential remedy. However, little is known about the lengt... Read more
Extract from an article by Peter Whiteford Is inequality rising or falling? The answer, if recent public debate is anything to go by, may appear at first to depend on who you ask. Part of th... Read more
SUMMARY This report provides an overview of national-level, state and territory findings, as well as comparisons across public housing, state owned and managed Indigenous housing and communi... Read more
Extract from a blog post by Geoff Gilfillan The latest results of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey were released in a report published on 2 August... Read more
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, known as HILDA, is a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. It is funded by the Australian Gove... Read more
Extract from an article by Peter Whiteford Social security and household incomes in Australia We can measure reliance on or use of social security using ABS statistics on income distribution... Read more
Media Release Regional population data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that the number of people living in Australia’s capital cities grew by 2.9 mill... Read more
SUMMARY This study forecast future expenditure on housing assistance programs; the additional outlays on ISPs due to asset test concessions to home owners; and the aggregate value of home ow... Read more
Extract from an article by Alan Austin Of all the measures of wellbeing of Australia’s workers and families, one has reliably increased over the decades. That is despite droughts, floods, re... Read more
Extract from a post by Joanne Simon-Davies The Census of Population and Housing paints a picture of the society in which we live and, when compared with previous censuses, we can see how we... Read more
The Department of Employment has updated the Employment Region channel of the Labour Market Information Portal (LMIP) with the following: The June 2017 jobactive Caseload by Selected Cohorts... Read more
Extract from an article by Glen Searle Population growth has profound impacts on Australian life, and sorting myths from facts can be difficult. This is the third article in our series, Is A... Read more
Extract from an article by Nicholas Biddle and Francis Markham Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a complicated history with the Australian census. Until the 1967 referendum,... Read more
Extract from an article by Jacob Saulwick and Peter Martin Garnet O’Neill neither owns his apartment outright, nor owns a mortgage over the property. In this, he is increasingly typica... Read more
