Roger Wilkins

Managing an ageing population for income adequacy and fiscal sustainability

This project aims to improve understanding of the impacts of existing key reforms intended to ease fiscal pressures associated with populati..

2018 - 2021

Defence Force Recruiting (DFR): External Review of Recruiting Women to the ADF

2019 - 2020

Research into Low-Paid Employees

2019 - 2020

Income inequality and mobility in Australia, Great Britain and the US

A major debate is raging on the growth of income inequality, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries. This project will use a cross-national fra..

2015 - 2017

Low-paid women's workforce participation decisions and pay equity

2014 - 2015

Job retention and advancement of disadvantaged job-seekers

This project will use empirical methods to help determine what is necessary for job retainment and career advancement of disadvantaged jobse..

2007 - 2012

Job retention and advancement of disadvantaged job-seekers

This project will use empirical methods to help determine what is necessary for job retainment and career advancement of disadvantaged jobse..

2007 - 2012

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Roger Wilkins.

HILDA User Manual – Release 19

Michelle Summerfield, Brooke Garrard, Markus Hahn, Yihua Jin, Roopa Kamath, Ninette Macalalad, Nicole Watson, Roger Wilkins, Mark Wooden

Reference Work | 2020

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) is a household-based longitudinal survey. This manual has be..

Poverty in Childhood Leads to Poverty in Adulthood

Roger Wilkins, Esperanza Vera-Toscano

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2020

New research finds Australian children from poor households are over three times more likely to suffer adult poverty – which tells..

Does poverty in childhood beget poverty in adulthood in Australia?

Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Roger Wilkins

Report | 2020

Analysis of the intergenerational transmission of economic disadvantage and entrenched poverty is concerned with discovering the e..

The ATO Longitudinal Information Files (ALife): A New Resource for Retirement Policy Research

C Polidano, A Carter, M Chan, A Chigavazira, H To, J Holland, S Nguyen, H Vu, R Wilkins

Journal article | 2020 | The Australian Economic Review

The Australian Taxation Office release of annual longitudinally linked individual tax and superannuation records, known as the ATO..

The effect of job search requirements on welfare receipt: Evidence from an Australian welfare reform

Nicolas Herault, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins

Report | 2020

Many countries impose job search requirements as a condition of unemployment benefit receipt, but there is relatively little evide..

More education accounts for the rising share of women in the UK top 1%

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen JENKINS, Roger Wilkins

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2020

The share of total income held by those at the very top of the income distribution has been much analysed, but despite a rising sh..

What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1%?

Richard V Burkhauser, Nicolas Herault, Stephen JENKINS, Roger Wilkins

Report | 2020

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other c..

External review of recruiting women to the ADF

Roger Wilkins, Federico Zilio, Vanessa Koufomanolis, Joyce Prescher, Tricia Deasy, undefined The Online Research Unit

Report | 2020

That estimate of 6.6 million Australian workers on JobKeeper, it tells us how it can be improved

Roger Wilkins, Jeffrey Borland

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2020

JobKeeper is by “no means perfect”. Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy used those exact words when he appeared before a Senate com..

The attacks are misguided: in a time of crisis the Bureau of Statistics is serving us well

Jeffrey Borland, Bob Gregory, John Freebairn, Roger Wilkins, Sue Richardson

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2020

In critical times, we expect our public institutions to step up. Inevitably, we are going to judge them, as we should, because it ..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Applied Economics

Microeconomics

Community Services

Work and Labour Market

Demography

Macroeconomics

Sociology

Policy and Administration

Expanding Knowledge

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles by Roger Wilkins.

Post-JobKeeper, unemployment could head north of 7%: here's why

Roger Wilkins

EmiliaUngur/ShutterstockIt’s not just the end of JobKeeper that will push up unemployment in April. The most-r..

April 25, 2021

Too many eggs in the property wealth basket

Roger Wilkins

Extended house prices falls as the COVID-induced economic downturn bites would damp economic growth given Australian’s heavy reliance on pro..

November 19, 2020

Pandemic fallout exposes the young and vulnerable

Roger Wilkins

The pandemic recession in Australia will hit hardest the young, as well as those who are relatively low-skilled and already earning low wage..

November 19, 2020

Poverty in childhood leads to poverty in adulthood

Roger Wilkins, Esperanza Vera-Toscano

Poverty and socio-economic disadvantage more broadly, continue to be important public policy issues for Australia. Based on a measure of pov..

October 26, 2020

Who’s hit hardest by the COVID-19 economic shutdown?

Roger Wilkins

All Australians have, to some extent, been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic but the economic effects haven’t been uniform, and s..

May 25, 2020

That estimate of 6.6 million Australians on JobKeeper, it tells us how it can be improved

Roger Wilkins, Jeff Borland

ShutterstockJobKeeper is by “no means perfect”. Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy used those exact words when ..

April 29, 2020

The attacks are misguided: in a time of crisis the Bureau of Statistics is serving us well

Jeff Borland, Bob Gregory, John Freebairn, Roger Wilkins, Sue Richardson

In critical times, we expect our public institutions to step up. Inevitably, we are going to judge them, as we should, because it is importa..

April 23, 2020

Over 50% of young Australian adults still live with their parents – and the numbers are climbing faster for women

Roger Wilkins, Esperanza Vera-Toscano

More than 60% of Victorian young adults live with their parents, followed by 56% in New South Wales and about 53% in the other four states. ..

July 29, 2019

Lost in transit?

Inga Lass, Roger Wilkins, John Stone

We all have our rituals on the journey to and from work.Commuters once had to avoid hitting each other in the face with newspapers, but now ..

July 25, 2019

Rates of diagnosed mental illness soar

Roger Wilkins, Rohan Borschmann

The prevalence of diagnosed mental conditions in Australia like depression and anxiety has soared in the last eight years, making mental ill..

July 16, 2019