Working poor in Australia: an analysis of poverty among households in which a member is employed

Currently, both 'work' and 'family' are key priorities of the Australian Government as, faced with an ageing population and high costs of living, it is grappling with the challenge of promoting increases in both fertility and labour force participation. With this focus, family payments were expanded substantially under the Howard Government (Harding, Vu, Payne, and Percival, 2006) and the promotion of 'work-life balance' has become increasingly prominent. However, in 2005-06 almost 390,000 Australians - around 87,000 of whom were children - had incomes below the poverty line, despite having a ... Show more

Authors: Payne, Alicia

Published: Melbourne, Victoria, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2009

Resource type: Article

Access item: http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm2009/fm81/ap.pdf

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