@rkwilkins.bsky.social
Economist working on labour, income inequality, socio-economic disadvantage and other topics. Co-Director of the HILDA Survey.
🧵 New paper: How temporary COVID lockdowns permanently shifted work patterns in Australia 🇦🇺
A thread 👇
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KAf3...
Anyone got an explanation for this detour we took on a flight from London to Singapore today? Looks like we were avoiding northern Turkey.
17.06.2025 12:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Real Australian household disposable income per-capita (deflated by CPI and seasonally adjusted). Increasing steeply from 2000 to 2011, then flat to 2020, then high for 2 years, and returning to 2011-2019 levels in 2023. A small increase over the last 3 quarters.
Australian household incomes finally inching upwards again.
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An update on Australian household disposable income per capita. Not much impact from the Stage 3 (July 2024) tax cuts evident in the September quarter.
*very much doubt it has happened
15.11.2024 05:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If it has happened before, it was before 1970. But I very much it has happened previously since federation.
15.11.2024 05:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We don’t have any household survey data (or tax microdata) after 2021-22 as yet. HILDA data for 2022-23 will come out in December. (I can’t report numbers yet, but I can tell you it will show big declines in real incomes.)
15.11.2024 03:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is an extraordinary picture. It shows the measure of household income per capita used to produce the Henderson Poverty Line. The post-COVID decline has us at an average income level not seen since 2009.
15.11.2024 02:20 — 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 3Thanks Max!
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