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Employment Benefits: Private or Public Welfare?

dc.contributor.author Jamrozik, Adam en_US
dc.contributor.author Hoey, Marilyn en_US
dc.contributor.author Leeds, Marilyn en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T16:08:14Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T16:08:14Z
dc.date.issued 1981 en_US
dc.description.abstract This report is concerned with the subject of occupational welfare, i.e. benefits received by employees in addition to wages or salaries, which are commonly referred to in various terms, such as employment or employee benefits, fringe benefits, non-wage benefits, or, more recently, as remuneration package. The examination of recent and earlier data indicates that employment benefits are widespread throughout industry but their distribution favours considerably higher level employees. Recent changes in the structure of the labour market, e.g. the increase in part-time work in certain sectors of industry, further accentuate the inequalities in this distribution. The findings of the study raise a number of issues for social welfare policy. For while employment benefits are received, and perceived, as rewards for contribution to economic production, a significant proportion of their cost is borne by the State through taxation revenue foregone, and by the community through higher prices of goods and services. Occupational welfare is therefore a ‘hidden’ part of the overall social welfare system. While it may be deemed appropriate that people receive rewards that are commensurate with the value of their contribution to economic production, the contribution by the State negates the accepted redistributional principles on which the public social welfare is, or is believed to be, based. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 858232332 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/45259
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Welfare Research Centre en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Reports and Proceedings 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 Remuneration Packages en_US
dc.subject.other Taxation Revenue en_US
dc.subject.other Australia en_US
dc.title Employment Benefits: Private or Public Welfare? 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/946
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber 15 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Jamrozik, Adam, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Hoey, Marilyn, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Leeds, Marilyn, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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