Lifetime Approach to Measuring Inequality in Living Standards in Australia

该项目旨在开发一种新的方法来研究澳大利亚的不平等趋势。它预计将通过衡量整个生命周期中生活水平的不平等，并通过确定澳大利亚财政制度在重新分配家庭和几代人的终身资源方面的作用，来推进知识体系。这一新方法将有助于澄清基于当年收入的常用不平等指标中的潜在偏差。其调查结果有望为澳大利亚人如何分享经济增长带来的收益提供新的见解。它还应该为设计一个更好的税收和转移支付体系提供政策选择，以维持澳大利亚的经济繁荣和公平。

This project aims to develop a new methodology to study trends in inequality in Australia. It expects to advance the body of knowledge by measuring inequality in living standards over the whole lifetime and by identifying the role of the Australian fiscal system in redistributing lifetime resources across households and generations. This new approach would help clarify the potential bias embedded in commonly used inequality indicators based on current-year income. Its findings expect to provide new insights into how the gains from economic growth have been shared among Australians. It should also offer policy options for designing a better tax and transfer system that would sustain economic prosperity and fairness in Australia.