Age Bias in the Australian Welfare State

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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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Main Authors:	Tapper, Alan, Fenna, Alan, Phillimore, John
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Australian National University 2013
Subjects:	Taxation Age Social Policy Redistribution Welfare State
Online Access:	http://press.anu.edu.au?p=247961 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45556

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