Tax, Social Policy and Gender »

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• Preliminary pages (PDF, 0.2MB)
• List of figures (PDF, 0.1MB)
• List of tables (PDF, 0.1MB)
• List of acronyms (PDF, 0.1MB)
• Contributors (PDF, 0.1MB)
• Preface and acknowledgements (PDF, 0.1MB)
• Foreword (PDF, 0.1MB)

1. Gender inequality in Australia’s tax-transfer system (PDF, 0.9MB) – Miranda Stewart doi

Part I: Frameworks for gender analysis

2. Australian tax-transfer policies and taxing for gender equality: Comparative perspectives and reform options (PDF, 0.9MB) – Kathleen Lahey doi
3. Gender equity in the tax-transfer system for fiscal sustainability (PDF, 0.4MB) – Patricia Apps doi
4. Gender equality and a rights-based approach to tax reform (PDF, 0.2MB) – Helen Hodgson and Kerrie Sadiq doi

Part II: Work and care

5. Taxes, transfers, family policies and paid work over the female life cycle (PDF, 0.4MB) – Guyonne Kalb doi
6. Paying for care in Australia’s ‘wage earners’ welfare state’: The case of child endowment (PDF, 0.3MB) – Julie Smith doi
7. Parents’ primary and secondary child care time adjustment to market time: Evidence from Australian mothers and fathers (PDF, 0.3MB) – Huong Dinh and Maria Racionero doi

Part III: Human capital, savings and retirement

8. Gender differences in costs and returns to higher education (PDF, 0.7MB) – Mathias Sinning doi
9. Women and top incomes in Australia (PDF, 1.0MB) – Miranda Stewart, Sarah Voitchovsky and Roger Wilkins doi
10. Budgeting for women’s rights in retirement (PDF, 0.6MB) – Siobhan Austen and Rhonda Sharp doi

Part IV: Towards gender equality in the tax-transfer system

11. Pathways and processes towards a gender equality policy (PDF, 0.2MB) – Meredith Edwards and Miranda Stewart doi

• Index (PDF, 0.1MB)