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- Title
Work and welfare.
- Authors
Pech, Jocelyn; Landt, John
- Abstract
The article discusses the evolving role of income support in contemporary Australia. The Australian income support system 1 was originally designed to provide a substitute for income from paid work, rather than a complement to such income. In a world where almost all jobs were full-time, women commonly withdrew from the workforce when they married and male wages were considered sufficient to support a family, there was little need for the social income support to top up earnings on an ongoing basis. The income support system still fulfils its traditional role of facilitating movement between jobs as economic and personal circumstances change increasing proportions of both men and women in part-time employment, such that 12 per cent of male employment and 44 per cent of female employment is now part-time. Employment rates of partnered men with and without children followed steady downward trajectories, while the employment rate of single men without children fluctuated with the economic cycle.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; JOB sharing; PART-time employment; WOMEN'S employment; WOMEN employees; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 58, p22
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article