12 December 2017
This Melbourne Economic Forum will highlight the income and wealth disparities in our country, with a focus on the issues tied to income inequality and the issues that arise from these disparities more generally. This forum will enliven the discussion around this critical matter and offer some new and innovative solutions to combat it.
Professor Guyonne Kalb, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied and Economic Research, The University of Melbourne
Guyonne’s research compares a range of alternative poverty measures for Australia and investigates how these measures would affect our approach to defining what it means to be in poverty and under financial stress.
Dr Krishna B. Kumar, RAND, Labor and Population
Krishna is building a model that integrates childhood investments with labor market participation and outcomes to understand better the evolution of economic disparities, especially as it relates to labor earnings.
Dr Janine Dixon, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
Modelling around the nature of recent structural changes in the job market
Dr Nhi Tran, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
The distributional consequences of the structural changes, using general economic modelling that shows technological change has favoured some occupations over others.