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New finding: boosting JobSeeker wouldn't keep Australians away from paid work

  • Written by Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Incentives, the Freakonomics author Steven Levitt once quipped, are the “cornerstone of modern life”. To this I would add: only if the incentive is big enough.

In Australia at present there is considerable support for increasing the JobSeeker unemployment payment by a significant amount to make up for decades in which...

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