Roger Wilkins

Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD Countries

Duncan McVicar, Roger Wilkins, Nicolas R Ziebarth

Book Chapter  |  2023

Abstract This chapter summarizes and discusses developments and policy changes in the public disability benefit sys..

Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018

Matthew Fisher-Post, Nicolas Herault, Roger Wilkins

Report  |  2022

We produce estimates of the full distribution of all national income in Australia for the period 1991 to 2018, by combining house..

Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment

Ferdi Botha, Peter Butterworth, Roger Wilkins

Report  |  2022  |  Social Science and Medicine

This paper investigates whether the Australian government's Coronavirus Supplement, a temporary income support payment for unemplo..

Can superannuation contribution matching schemes incentivise low and middle-income earners to save more?

King Chan, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins

Report  |  2022

Tightening caps on superannuation tax-breaks prompt high income earners to reduce their taxable income, which means that fiscal..

The Dynamics of Income Poverty in Australia: Evidence from the HILDA Survey, 2001 to 2019

Esperanza Vera-Toscano, roger Wilkins

Report  |  2022

The definition of poverty used in this report is based on income: an individual is deemed to be in poverty if their household in..

Rising top-income persistence in Australia: Evidence from income tax data

N Hérault, D Hyslop, SP Jenkins, R Wilkins

Report  |  2022  |  Review of Income and Wealth

Using income tax administrative data for Australia, we examine levels and trends in the persistence in top-income group membership..

Evaluating How Mental Health Changed in Australia through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the 'Taking the Pulse of the Nation' (TTPN) Survey

Ferdi Botha, Peter Butterworth, Roger Wilkins

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health at the level of the population. The current study adds to the ..

HILDA User Manual - Release 21

Michelle Summerfield, Brooke Garrard, Roopa Kamath, Ninette Macalalad, Mossamet Kamrun Nesa, Nicole WATSON, Roger Wilkins, Mark Wooden

Reference Work  |  2022

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

Economic Wellbeing

R Wilkins

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australian Economic Review

Over its 21 years, the HILDA Survey has assembled an unrivalled array of data on the economic wellbeing of the Australian populati..

Our top 1% of income earners is an increasingly entrenched elite

Roger Wilkins, Nicolas Herault, Stephen P Jenkins

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

The share of total income collected by the top 1% of Australia’s income earners has been trending upwards since the 1980s. It is n..