Research Discussion Paper – RDP 2015-01 Stress Testing the Australian Household Sector Using the HILDA Survey

Contents

• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Descriptive Statistics
• Method
• Results
• Limitations and Future Work
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Unemployment Probabilities
• References
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The authors would like to thank Kylie Smith, Paul Hutchinson, Rochelle Guttmann, Gianni La Cava, John Simon, David Hughes, David Rodgers, Christopher Kent and participants at the HILDA Survey Research Conference 2013 for their helpful comments.