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Trends in Child Poverty in Australia, 1982 to 1995–96
Author(s) -
HARDING ANN,
SZUKALSKA AGGIE
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2000.tb00020.x
Subject(s) - poverty , fell , cash , economics , child poverty , government (linguistics) , demographic economics , payment , poverty level , socioeconomics , development economics , economic growth , geography , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , finance , macroeconomics
This study suggests that child poverty in Australia fell by about one‐third between 1982 and 1995–96, largely as a result of the very substantial increases in government cash payments to lower income families with children. However, while there were sharp falls in poverty among dependent children, poverty rates among 15 to 18 year‐olds who had left the parental home or who were still living at home but not in full‐time study increased very sharply. In addition, the after‐housing poverty picture did not look so optimistic, apparently due to a compositional shift in the types of families in after‐housing poverty.