Special Feature:
Changing Income and Employment Opportunities in Australian Neighbourhoods
Introduction
Dr Peter Whiteford, 'Does Australia Have a Ghetto Underclass?'
Professor R.C. Gregory and Boyd Hunter, 'Further Remarks on Increased Neighbourhood Inequality'
Other Major Articles
Robert Holbert, 'Issues in Assessing the Adequacy of Social Security Payments'
Dr Peter Whiteford, 'Families, Benefits and Taxes: Support for Children in a Comparative Perspective'
David Kalisch, 'The Contribution of Family Payments to Family Incomes: Developments Since the 1970s'
Susan Donath, 'The Invisible Child: A Feminist Critique of Economic Theory'
Elizabeth Brenan and Peter Wightman, 'Access to Department of Social Security Payments and Services by Compensable People and Implications for Policy'
Social Security Notes
Anna Reibelt, 'International Social Security Agreements - Australia in the Wider Context'
Judy Raymond and Leon Trainor, 'DSS Involvement with the International Social Security Association (ISSA)'
David Ward, 'The Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia'
Edwin Bell, 'The OECD Social Expenditure Data Base: Its Current Structure and Future Development'
Book Reviews
Work, Growth and Well-Being: Anthony H. Winefield, Marike Tiggemann, Helen R. Winefield and Robert D. Goldney, Growing Up with Unemployment: A Longitudinal Study of its Psychological Impact
Reviewer: Alan Jordan
The Economics of Welfare: Theory, Costs and Practice: Nicholas Barr and David Whynes (eds), Current Issues in the Economics of Welfare and Robert Page and Nicholas Deakin (eds), The Costs of Welfare
Reviewer: Ken Oliver
Measuring the Well-Being of Older People - Methodologies and Assumptions: Peter Whiteford and Steven Kennedy, Incomes and Living Standards of Older People
Reviewer: Chris Harrington
Just Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Evaluation Consultancy Group, Department of Finance, Doing Evaluations - A Practical Guide
Reviewer: Dianne Simpson-McClynn
The Role of Women in the Super Race: Eva Cox, David Know, John Larkin et al, Women and Superannuation
Reviewer: Kaye Brown
Social Security Statistics
Statistical tables:
- Pensioners: Pension Type, Australia, December 1985 to December 1994
- Pensioners: State by Pension Type by Sex, December 1994
- Allowees: Allowance Type, Australia, December 1991 to December 1994
- Job Search and Newstart Allowees: State by Allowance Type, December 1994
- Other Allowees: State by Allowance Type, December 1994
- Job Search and Newstart Allowees: Duration, Australia, November 1985 to November 1994
- Family Payments: Clients and Children by Family Payment Type, Australia, December 1992 to December 1994
- Family Payments: State by Family Payment Type by Sex, December 1994
- Disability Support Pension by Age by Sex, Australia, December 1994
- Sickness Allowance by Age by Sex, Australia, November 1994
- Disability Support Pension, December 1994, and Sickness Allowance, November 1994, by Medical Condition by Sex, Australia
- Disability Support Pension, December 1994 and Sickness Allowance, November 1994, by Country of Birth by Sex, Australia
- Disability Support Pension, December by Duration by Sex, Australia, December 1994
- Sickness Allowance by Duration by Sex, Australia, November 1994
- Child Disability Allowance: State by Sex, December 1994
- Mobility Allowance: State by Sex, December 1994
- Mobility Allowance: Australia, December 1986 to December 1994
- Age, Disability and Sole Parent Pensioners, December 1985 to December 1994
- Number of Job Search and Newstart Allowees by State, December 1994
- Family Payments by Type and State, December 1994
- Disability Support Pension by Age by Sex, Australia, December 1994
- Sickness Allowance by Age by Sex, Australia, November 1994
- Disability Support Pension by Duration by Sex, Australia, November 1994
- Sickness Allowance by Duration by Sex, Australia, November 1994
- Overseas Born Disability support Pension and Sickness Allowance Recipients, December 1994
Project Notes
Editor's Note
Current and planned research
- Retirement Incomes
- Income Support for People with Disabilities
- Income Support for Families
- Labour Market Programs
- Assistance for Young People
- Income Support Research - Other New Books and Reports