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Income poverty statistics tell us relatively little about why Australian children live in poverty, or how to alleviate it. But housing plays a critical part in the problem.
The new level of inequality that is emerging in Australia is not only a challenge to our morality but a serious threat to our future economic growth.
The major presidential candidates each gave an economic address this week. Get behind the problems they identified and the promises they made with this roundup of key coverage from our archive.
Australia has become collectively richer but much more unequal in recent decades.
Income inequality and political polarization have both surged in recent decades and are the worst they’ve ever been. Is one causing the other?
Wages are stagnating and women have not benefited nearly as much as men from earlier wage increases. And what if small business isn’t the powerhouse we’ve been led to believe? What recent HILDA data has to tell us about gender, income and work.
An analysis of what’s known as the Gini coefficient offers some clues on what makes one society more unequal in terms of income than another.
How has the wealth of Australian households changed over the last 15 years?
The corporate world must embrace human rights as a fundamental business priority.
The government made many sensible changes to superannuation tax breaks in the budget. But the move to more flexible annual caps on pre-tax contributions is not one of them.
Two centuries of tax policy show efforts to raise taxes on the rich hinge on questions of fairness. The history also suggests proponents have a tough road ahead.
Discussion about tax reform has been dominated by self-interest, with the real purpose of tax lost.
In the humanitarian aid and development sector, local staff are paid less and receive fewer benefits than their expatriate colleagues, even when they do similar work and have similar qualifications.
New figures reveal inequality in Britain and the effects of the redistributive tax and benefits system.
Americans tend to agree inequality is a problem, but Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas about what is causing it and how to solve it.
When the excitement over cabinet resignations and the sugar tax subsides, the 2016 Budget acts as a blueprint for making the wealthy wealthier.
A new study on inequality analyzes the impact of fiscal policy, dramatically altering the standard view of rich and poor in America. It may also change how voters and candidates think about the issue.
Economic growth is a necessary condition for development. But it can only pass the sufficient condition test if growth translates into high-earning jobs. Ghana’s recent history illustrates this.
The latest economic research suggests there are better ways to narrow the gap between the richest and the poorest.
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Bordeaux Schoool of Economics, Université de Bordeaux
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Professor/Economist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Professor in Social Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, ESCP Business School
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Professor of Strategy, Economics and Foresights, Hult International Business School
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
