Shocks to income have pushed Australian inequality higher, paper finds

Both persistent and transitory shocks to Australian income have boosted inequality, researchers say

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Income and consumption inequality have both risen among Australian households since the early 1990s, with income inequality rising more, a paper published by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) argues.

In Household economic inequality in Australia, Rosetta Dollman, Greg Kaplan, Gianni La Cava and Tahlee Stone use official household expenditure survey data to estimate changes in consumption inequality. They then use data from an academic survey of household income and labour dynamics to model

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