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That is the suggestion here from Gareth Morgan. I agree of course, I have said the same thing here before – both when raising what my policy platform would be and discussing the minimum wage more recently. It is fine to disagree with this and say “only people who are part of the labour market […]
So I see Gareth Morgan is suggesting a set minimum income level and a flat tax rate. Very nice, I can see merits in some of the set up for sure given my personal value judgments. Some on the left will think this is right wing (where is the progressivity!), Some on the right will […]
Last week we’d been chatting about the unemployment benefit in Australia and the reasons why some unemployed people don’t get it, while some people who aren’t unemployed do. Everything boiled down to eligibility criteria – criteria that are intended to exclude those that aren’t deemed to need it. After realising this, my colleagues and I […]
Hi all – below is the text version of our book review of Thomas Piketty’s “Time for Socialism“. The video can be found here. Would be keen for thoughts, and if there are other books people want reviewed.
Randomized control trial (RTC) studies are getting more and more attention among policymakers in the last few decades. In addition, the RCT is one of the core experimental methodologies used by the recent nobel prize laureates in economics Duflo, Kremer and Banerjee. Given the excitement around these methods, Chicago University has recently run the IGM […]
This article was originally published on the Infometrics website here. One of the true tests of a society is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members, particularly the old, the young, the sick, and the disabled. There is a lot of good with New Zealand and New Zealand policy. However, on assisting those […]