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Tax reform and public-sector expenditures [PDF]
This paper evaluates the efficiency implications of various fundamental tax reforms in an infinite-horizon endogenous growth model with public-sector investment in human capital.
Kevin J. Lansing, Steven P. Cassou
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington +2 more
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Developing Innovative Payment Approaches: Finding the Path to High Performance [PDF]
, 2010 Discusses issues in facilitating, under the 2010 health reform law, initiatives to identify, develop, implement, and monitor payment and delivery system reforms to improve quality and control costs while supporting the fiscal integrity of public ...
Heather Drake, Stuart Guterman
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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Indirect Tax Reforms and Public Goods under Imperfect Competition [PDF]
This paper examines, within an imperfectly competitive environment with public goods, the welfare effects of three popular indirect tax reforms: i) a tariff cut combined with an equal increase in the consumption tax, ii) a tariff cut combined with an ...
Nikos Tsakiris, Ourania Karakosta
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz +7 more
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The Political Economy of Reforms: Empirical Evidence from Post-Communist Transition in the 1990s [PDF]
Using a novel data set from post-communist countries in the 1990s, this paper examines the link-ages between political constraints, economic reforms and growth.
Jukka Pirttila, Kim, Byung-Yeon
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia +3 more
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Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects [PDF]
Competition in public utility sectors has been encouraged in recent years throughout Europe. In this paper we try and analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods.
Carlo Scarpa +2 more
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Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt +3 more
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