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A Challenge to Work and Welfare: Poverty in Australia in the 1990s

dc.contributor.author Saunders, Peter en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:33:48Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:33:48Z
dc.date.issued 1995 en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper discusses issues associated with the measurement of poverty and how future trends in work and welfare will affect poverty in Australia, One of the main aims is to illustrate why and in what sense the measurement of poverty remains important in the broader policy debate. The role of budget standards in the development of poverty benchmarks is discussed, as are the limitations of the current method of updating the poverty line. Some possible ways of dealing with these are explored with the help of empirical data. The relationship between labour force status and poverty status is then explored using data from the latest (1990) household income survey. This is followed by a discussion of how income units at different points in the income distribution, and according to whether they are above or below the poverty line, evaluate their own perceived level of happiness and health status. Many of the differences revealed in the data are shown to vary significantly with the poverty status of the unit. Finally, the paper canvasses some of the issues associated with labour market changes and what these imply for future trends in poverty and income support policies. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0733412858 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1447-8978 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/33990
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.title A Challenge to Work and Welfare: Poverty in Australia in the 1990s 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/195
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 64 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Saunders, Peter, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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