Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia

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Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia

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Robson, Doug (Department of Finance and Deregulation)
Rodgers, Joan R () (University of Wollongong)

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During the last decade or so Australia has experienced high rates of economic growth and low levels of unemployment, conditions that are expected to impact favourably on working people at the lower end of the income distribution. But similar conditions in other countries have been accompanied by unexpectedly high rates of poverty among working people and their dependents. This paper investigates the extent and nature of working poverty in Australia. Its aim is to determine whether or not working poverty is the “new face of poverty in post-industrial Australia”.

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Paper provided by School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia in its series Economics Working Papers with number wp08-08.

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Length: 34 pages
Date of creation: 2008
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I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General
J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2008-07-20 (All new papers)
NEP-PKE-2008-07-20 (Post Keynesian Economics)

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Seamus McGuinness & John Freebairn, 2007. "Who Are the Low Waged?," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2007n08, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
David Gleicher & Lonnie K. Stevans, 2005. "A Comprehensive Profile of the Working Poor ," LABOUR, CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, vol. 19(3), pages 517-529, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Peter Saunders & Bruce Bradbury, 2006. "Monitoring Trends in Poverty and Income Distribution: Data, Methodology and Measurement," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 82(258), pages 341-364, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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