Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research

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We are Australia’s pre-eminent economic and social policy research centre. For more than 50 years our world-class economists have conducted rigorous, independent research and analysis, providing an evidence base for effective policy reform. We help to solve some of the most pressing and complex issues affecting ordinary Australians, striving to advance opportunity, equity and prosperity for our nation.

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Aug 22, 2023	Work From Home Increasingly Resembles a Fight Between Employer and Employee in Australia	The tension between the employee’s desire to work from home and the interests of both their employers and the broader property market to get them back into the office, is rapidly coming to a head. In Australia, office vacancy rates hit thei...
Aug 18, 2022	Australia’s inflation rate will soon be published each month. Here’s what that means	Source: Getty Australia’s consumer price index is about to go monthly, meaning Australia will join most of the developed world in getting an update on inflation at the end of every month, instead of once every three months as at present. Un...
Aug 3, 2022	Interest rates will keep rising because the Reserve Bank is scared it can’t contain inflation	Reserve Bank governor Phillip Lowe. Source: AAP/Joel Carrett. There are signs inflation pressures are easing. Oil prices are down almost 20% on their peak in March. They’ve been falling consistently for a month. The average capital city unl...
May 4, 2022	How the RBA being too aggressive on interest rates could cause a recession	Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe. Lukas Coch/AAP One of the stranger things about the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) announcement of why it’s lifting interest rates by 0.25 percentage points is that it suggests inflation will come down ...
Dec 9, 2021	Pay has declined for new workforce entrants, but study finds job satisfaction hasn’t lowered	Source: Unsplash/Brooke Cagle. Around 400,000 people under the age of 25 leave full-time education and embark on their careers each year. The latest HILDA Survey Statistical Report, released today, shows how they have been faring since 2001...
Aug 4, 2021	Paying fully vaccinated Aussies $300? Here’s why Anthony Albanese’s idea is value for money	COVID-19 vaccine. Source: Unsplash/Brano. I reckon Albo’s on the right track. The opposition leader wants to pay $300 to every Australian who is fully vaccinated by December 1. The Grattan Institute is on a similar theme. It has proposed a ...
Mar 3, 2021	Josh Frydenberg has an opportunity to crush unemployment and transform Australia	Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Source: AAP/Daniel Pockett. Josh Frydenberg has the opportunity to become a transformational Australian treasurer. He has been bequeathed a set of circumstances that comes along rarely. He has already shown himsel...
Feb 4, 2021	Despite a surge in the number of Australians buying their first home, research shows this trend will be short term	Source: Getty. In 2020, the global economic landscape was shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in Australia, borders closed to international visitors, social-distancing measures were invoked and working-from-home became the norm. But despi...
Jan 29, 2021	Childcare costs in Sydney and Brisbane reach record highs	In news that’s unlikely to surprise many parents in Australia familiar with paying for early childhood education and care, out-of-pocket fees for childcare have, once again, risen sharply. The national consumer prince index (CPI) figures re...
Aug 22, 2020	If You Were Satisfied With Your Life Before, You’ll Probably Bounce Back	A new study shows that resilience is not innate. If you have a high level of life satisfaction to start with, you’re more likely to bounce back from a major life event than someone who doesn’t. Researchers say this information can help gove...
Aug 13, 2020	Make It Free: More than 70 women-led businesses and 600 business owners demand urgent childcare reform	Verve Super co-founders Alex Andrews, Zoe Lamont and Christina Hobbs (L to R). A group of predominately women-led businesses are spearheading an urgent campaign calling on the government to make early childhood care and education free. The ...
Aug 4, 2020	Why the closure of Victorian childcare centres will be especially tough on working mothers	How do you occupy a child for long enough to get any work done? This will be the question confronting more than 150,000 Melbourne families for at least the next six weeks. The stage four restrictions announced by the Victorian government to...
Jun 11, 2020	Counting the cost: Australia’s most vulnerable people have been hardest hit by COVID-19 economic downturn, research shows	Source: Getty Images. All Australians have, to some extent, been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but the economic effects haven’t been uniform, and some have been hit much worse than others. People directly reliant on incomes f...
May 8, 2020	Is slowing Australia’s population growth really the best way out of this crisis?	Source: That Startup Show's media library. After weeks of pressuring the government to do more to support temporary migrants who fall outside the criteria for government support, the opposition took a surprising stance in The Age and The Sy...
Apr 27, 2020	Permanently raising the childcare subsidy is an economic opportunity too good to miss	The Australian government’s COVID-19 rescue package for the childcare sector provides a lifeline for centres and parents alike. Childcare centres now have a guaranteed stream of income and support for wage costs, helping them to stay in bus...
Nov 13, 2019	Despite what you might have read, robots aren’t coming for our jobs	By Michael Coelli, University of Melbourne, and Jeff Borland, University of Melbourne Should we believe headlines claiming nearly half of all jobs will be lost to robots and artificial intelligence? We think not, and in a newly released stu...
Jul 31, 2019	Are consumers broke? Current disposable incomes lower than during GFC	By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University During the election campaign, then-opposition leader Bill Shorten repeatedly claimed that everything was going up. “Childcare is up 28%, out of pockets to see...
Nov 21, 2018	The gender qualification gap: Why women ‘over-invest’ in workplace capabilities	By Leonora Risse, RMIT University It took a Nobel Prize before Canadian physicist Donna Strickland got promoted to a full professorship. As anecdotal evidence that women have to prove themselves even more than men to earn a job promotion, h...
Nov 7, 2018	‘Many retirees will get a pay rise’: Why compulsory superannuation should stay at 9.5%	By Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; John Daley, Grattan Institute; and Jonathan Nolan, Grattan Institute It’s conventional wisdom that Australians don’t save enough for retirement. Most workers themselves think they won’t have enough to r...
Feb 15, 2018	Are ‘almost 60%’ of small business owners paid ‘$50,000 or less’?	Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson, speaking on Q&A. Source: ABC Q&A By Janine Dixon and Jason Nassios, Victoria University This article is part of The Conversation’s series, which fact-checks ...
	Asia markets rise as Wall Street snaps three-day losing streak	This is CNBC’s live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets.
	Can Australia beat inflation without spiralling into a recession? The data says yes	Source: Unsplash/Sean Robertson What if Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe and his successor Michele Bullock were able to achieve something truly remarkable – a steady decline in inflation without further interest rate increases, and without...
	This Is the Maximum Number of Hours You Should Work to Avoid Stress	This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. As entrepreneurs we tend to spend many hours at work, however, this may not be the most beneficial for your health or even for...

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