Mr Peter Whiteford
Areas of expertise
- Policy And Administration 1605
- Social Policy 160512
Research interests
Peter Whiteford's research has concentrated on international comparisons of systems of social protection and comparisons of poverty and income distribution, and his areas of interest include: Child poverty; family policy; international comparisons of income inequality and poverty; comparative social policy and the welfare state; reconciliation of work and family life; lone parenthood and joblessness among families with children; social policy and the life course; social assistance policies; pension policies; social policy and income disparities in China; Australian social policy, especially social security policy; tax-transfer policies.
Biography
Peter Whiteford is a Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Between 2008 and 2012 he worked at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. He previously worked as a Principal Administrator in the Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
His work at the OECD encompassed pension and welfare policies in OECD countries, Eastern Europe and China. He also worked on child poverty, family assistance policies, welfare reform, and other aspects of social policy, particularly ways of supporting the balance between work and family life. He has published extensively on various aspects of the Australian system of income support.
In July 2008, he was appointed by the Australian government to the Reference Group for the Harmer Review of the Australian pension system. He was an invited keynote speaker at the Melbourne Institute-Australia's Future Tax and Transfer Policy Conferenceheld in June 2009 as part of the Henry Review of Australia’s Future Tax System, and he participated in the Tax Forumheld in Canberra in October 2011.
He is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research(CEPAR).
Researcher's projects
He is Chief Investigator (with Gerry Redmond) of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded linkage project on “Supporting Families: Equity in the Australian Tax-Transfer System”.
GINI Growing Inequalities, Impacts: http://www.gini-research.org/articles/home
Recent projects include for UNICEF (Pacific) on child poverty and disparities in Kiribati and Vanuatu. http://www.unicef.org/pacificislands/1850_10993.html
Publications
- Whiteford, P. (2012), Social Security Reform: The Tax Forum and Beyond, Economic Papers, 31, 1, March.
- Whiteford, P.Redmond and E. Adamson (2011), Middle class welfare in Australia: How has the distribution of cash benefits changed since the 1980s? Australian Journal of Labour Economics.14, 2, 81-102.
- Adema, W. and Whiteford, P..(2010), Public and private social welfare, in Castles, F., Leibfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger H., and Pierson, C., (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 139-51.
- Whiteford, P. (2010), The Australian tax-transfer system: architecture and outcomes, Economic Record, 86 (275), 528-544.
- Whiteford, P. (2010), The Henry Review and the Social Security System, The Australian Economic Review, 43 (4), 429-436.
- Salditt, F., Whiteford, P.and Adema W.(2008), Pension reform in China; International Social Security Review, 61 (3), July-September, 47-71.
- Queisser, M., Whitehouse, E and Whiteford, P.(2007), The Public-Private Pension Mix in OECD Countries, Industrial Relations Journal, 38 (6), 542-568.
- Whiteford, P. and Whitehouse, E.(2006), Pension Challenges and Pension Reforms in OECD Countries, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 22 (1), Spring 2006, 78-94.
- Whiteford, P.(2006), The Welfare Expenditure Debate: Economic Myths of the Left and the Right Revisited, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 17 (1), September, 33-78.
