Work and welfare: the evolving role of income support
The evolving role of income support
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The Australian income support system was originally designed to provide a substitute for income from paid work, rather than a complement to such income. In recent decades, however, there have been significant changes in the Australian labour market and in the distribution of employment. Although there is now a higher proportion of people of working age in employment than at the start of the 1980s, fewer people are employed full time and more jobs are casual and/or low paid. In this article the authors discuss how the income support system has adapted to these changes.
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Published
2 April 2001
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Family Matters article