Policy papers
The papers in this section focus on one or more specific policies. The emphasis of these papers is thus on the outcomes of modelling, in contrast to the technical papers that focus on the modelling itself.
2013 Projects
2009 Projects
- Optimal Marginal Income Tax Reforms: A Microsimulation Analysis
- Linking a Dynamic CGE Model and a Microsimulation Model: Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Income Distribution in Australia
2008 Projects
- Abolishing the Tax-Free Threshold in Australia: Simulating Alternative Reforms
- Tax Policy Design and the Role of a Tax-Free Threshold
2007 Projects
- Comparing Welfare Change Measures with Income Change Measures in Behavioural Policy Simulations
- The Effect of an Alternative Childcare Subsidy on Labour Supply: A Policy Simulation
2006 Projects
2005 Projects
- Childcare demand and household labour supply after 2000
- Social Policy Research at the Melbourne Institute, 2000-2005
- The Effect of Financial Incentives on Labour Supply: Evidence for Sole Parents from Microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
2004 Projects
- Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling With the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator (MITTS): Uses and Extensions
- The Melbourne Institute Analysis of the Australian Labor Party's Tax and Family Benefit Package
- Melbourne Institute Report on the 2004 Federal Budget
- Bracket Creep, Effective Marginal Tax Rates and Alternative Tax Packages
- Incentives of the Current System for single and married mothers
2002 Projects
- The effect of childcare costs on labour supply: an analysis using ABS data and MITTS
- The Estimation of a New Zealand wage equation and Labour Supply Model
2001 Projects
- A Policy Simulation of aspects of the tax system using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator
- A Policy Simulation of aspects of the tax system using MITTS: Interim project
- Effects of the Working Nation social security reforms in July 1995: A policy simulation using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator