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| Middle class welfare in Australia? | | Author(s) | Bruce Bradbury |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Journal title | SPRC Reports and Proceedings, no 138, 1998 |
| Publisher | Social Policy Research Centre, NSW, Sydney, NSW, 1998 |
| Pages | 90 pp |
| Source | SPRC, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia. |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Social welfare ; Education ; Health services ; Public expenditure ; Middle class ; Social policy ; Australia. |
| Annotation | This report, commissioned by Australia's Department of Social Security, asks about the extent to which welfare transfers and services in Australia are directed towards the `middle class'. It discusses the role of the state in providing or funding `welfare services' in mixed economy societies like Australia. `Welfare' is defined to include government support in cash or kind provided to individuals and households. The report focuses on the most important of these: education, health, and social security, together with superannuation tax expenditures. Welfare services need to be evaluated in terms of their distributional outcomes. An overview of the distributional incidence of government-funded welfare services in Australia leads to an examination of the most appropriate indicators for identifying which households have high and low standards of living. These indicators are used to describe: the overall distributional impact of cash and non-cash benefits in Australia; the impact of education and health benefits in 1993-94; trends in the distribution of cash benefits from 1984 to 1993-94; and the distributional impact of superannuation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980721225 B |
| Classmark | JH: TY: V: L: WN8: T5: TM2: 7YA |
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