Katharine Betts

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Despite the Intergenerational Report’s assertion about ageing’s negative impact on labour force participation, the effect turns out to be minimal. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Truthy untruths: behind the facade of the Intergenerational Report

Katharine Betts, Swinburne University of Technology and Bob Birrell, Monash University

The 2015 Intergenerational Report is being used as a basis for important decisions about future policies. But it makes some misleading claims.
Traffic congestion in the major cities is expected to cost Australians A$20.4 billion a year by 2020. Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

The tenuous link between population and prosperity

Katharine Betts, Swinburne University of Technology

Linking population growth with productivity and labour participation is problematic, just one of many questionable assumptions made in the Intergenerational Report.

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