Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.Baxter, Janeen
Cornish, Alexander
Ho, Tiffany
Kalb, Guyonne
Mazerolle, Lorraine
Parsell, Cameron
Pawson, Hal
De Silva, Lihini
Zubrick, Stephen
Abstract
This paper identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID-19. The authors demonstrate how COVID-19 presents unique opportunities for rethinking and redesigning long-standing rules and regulations covering how people live and work in ...
See moreThis paper identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID-19. The authors demonstrate how COVID-19 presents unique opportunities for rethinking and redesigning long-standing rules and regulations covering how people live and work in Australia, with some opportunities arising coincidentally and others requiring purposeful policy and institutional redesign. They present a broad range of ideas to address entrenched disadvantage in health, labour markets, the tax and transfer system, gender equality, education, housing and criminal justice in Australia, in order to leverage the COVID-19 crisis to build a better society.
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See moreThis paper identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID-19. The authors demonstrate how COVID-19 presents unique opportunities for rethinking and redesigning long-standing rules and regulations covering how people live and work in Australia, with some opportunities arising coincidentally and others requiring purposeful policy and institutional redesign. They present a broad range of ideas to address entrenched disadvantage in health, labour markets, the tax and transfer system, gender equality, education, housing and criminal justice in Australia, in order to leverage the COVID-19 crisis to build a better society.
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2021Source title
Australian Economic ReviewPublisher
Wiley Online LibraryLicence
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Baxter, J., Cobb‐Clark, D., Cornish, A., Ho, T., Kalb, G., Mazerolle, L., Parsell, C., Pawson, H., Thorpe, K., De Silva, L., et al. (2021). Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19. Australian Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12428Faculty/School
Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesInstitute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Telethon Kids Institute and Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia
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School of Economics; ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life CourseSubjects
COVID-19Share