Roger Wilkins
@rkwilkins.bsky.social
Economist working on labour, income inequality, socio-economic disadvantage and other topics. Co-Director of the HILDA Survey.
Australians are losing more of their income to tax than in decades, new report shows
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Australians are losing more of their income to tax than in decades, new report shows
Full-time workers’ average tax rates have also been steadily rising – with much of the tax burden falling on people in their mid-30s to 50s.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Australians are losing more of their income to tax than in decades, new report shows
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🧵 New paper: How temporary COVID lockdowns permanently shifted work patterns in Australia 🇦🇺
A thread 👇
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KAf3...
A thread 👇
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KAf3...
June 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
🧵 New paper: How temporary COVID lockdowns permanently shifted work patterns in Australia 🇦🇺
A thread 👇
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KAf3...
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.
June 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Anyone got an explanation for this detour we took on a flight from London to Singapore today? Looks like we were avoiding northern Turkey.
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Australian household incomes finally inching upwards again.
June 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Australian household incomes finally inching upwards again.
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Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself:
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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May 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself:
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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.
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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.
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.
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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.