Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State
This paper uses Australian Bureau of Statistics fiscal incidence figures to track trends across the period 1984 to 2010 in one key aspect of the Australian welfare state — whether welfare policies have favoured the elderly at the expense of the young. Our three main findings are: that there has been...
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| author | Tapper, Alan Fenna, Alan Phillimore, John |
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| description | This paper uses Australian Bureau of Statistics fiscal incidence figures to track trends across the period 1984 to 2010 in one key aspect of the Australian welfare state — whether welfare policies have favoured the elderly at the expense of the young. Our three main findings are: that there has been a substantial shift over this period in favour of the elderly; that this trend has accelerated rapidly in recent years; and that as a result of this accelerated trend, elderly households today are on average well off by comparison with younger households. We see little influence of party politics or ideology on the processes we are describing. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-455562017-01-30T15:21:45Z Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State Tapper, Alan Fenna, Alan Phillimore, John Taxation Age Social Policy Redistribution Welfare State This paper uses Australian Bureau of Statistics fiscal incidence figures to track trends across the period 1984 to 2010 in one key aspect of the Australian welfare state — whether welfare policies have favoured the elderly at the expense of the young. Our three main findings are: that there has been a substantial shift over this period in favour of the elderly; that this trend has accelerated rapidly in recent years; and that as a result of this accelerated trend, elderly households today are on average well off by comparison with younger households. We see little influence of party politics or ideology on the processes we are describing. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45556 http://press.anu.edu.au?p=247961 Australian National University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Taxation Age Social Policy Redistribution Welfare State Tapper, Alan Fenna, Alan Phillimore, John Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State |
| title | Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State |
| title_full | Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State |
| title_fullStr | Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State |
| title_full_unstemmed | Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State |
| title_short | Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State |
| title_sort | age bias in the australian welfare state |
| topic | Taxation Age Social Policy Redistribution Welfare State |
| url | http://press.anu.edu.au?p=247961 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45556 |