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Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Research

Means-tested benefits, incentives and earnings distributions

Policy Research Paper 9 / John Creedy and Rosanna Scutella. January 2001

Considers the question of whether it is possible, using information about only the distribution of earnings, to identify some of the labour supply incentive effects of a tax and transfer system. This is the first in a number of papers to emerge from initial and exploratory analysis of the department's Longitudinal (administrative) Data Set (LDS).

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