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The Impact of Family Assistance Changes on Patterns of Unemployment Benefit Receipt

dc.contributor.author Bradbury, Bruce en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:33:13Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:33:13Z
dc.date.issued 1992 en_US
dc.description.abstract The last decade in Australia has seen a major expansion of income support to low income non-pensioner/beneficiary families with children. One of the major goals of this increased support has been to increase the relative financial attractiveness of low wage employment for people with dependent children, and to thus encourage those unemployed with larger families to increase their job search effort. This paper examines this objective by first describing the changes in effective unemployment benefit replacement rates over the 1980s, and then by testing whether these changes have been associated with any changes in the relative unemployment rates of men with different numbers of children. The main conclusion is that these changes have not had any discernible behavioural impact. This may be due to either a small degree of response to financial incentives, or possibly to a lack of knowledge of the income support payments available. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0733402917 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1447-8978 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/33950
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries SPRC Discussion Paper en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Family Assistance en_US
dc.subject.other Unemployment Benefit en_US
dc.subject.other Australia en_US
dc.title The Impact of Family Assistance Changes on Patterns of Unemployment Benefit Receipt en_US
dc.type Working Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/166
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 33 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Bradbury, Bruce, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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