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The Impact of the Welfare State on the Economic Status of Indigenous Australian Women

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  • Anne Daly
  • Anne Hawke

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This article uses census data and Department of Social Security administrative records to examine the role of social security income in explaining the growth and relative improvement in the income status of indigenous Australian women. The real median income of indigenous women was 81 per cent of that of non‐indigenous women in 1991 compared with 74 per cent in 1976. Much of the change has come about from an improvement in the position of indigenous women who were not in employment. The article argues that much of this improvement can be attributed to increased access to social security benefits for indigenous women and therefore needs to be qualified by the circumstances in which these women live.

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  • Anne Daly & Anne Hawke, 1995. "The Impact of the Welfare State on the Economic Status of Indigenous Australian Women," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 28(4), pages 29-42, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:28:y:1995:i:4:p:29-42
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.1995.tb00902.x
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    1. Daina McDonald, 2006. "150 Issues of The Australian Economic Review: The Changing Face of a Journal over Time," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2006n01, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
    2. Danielle Venn & Boyd Hunter, 2018. "Poverty transitions in non-remote Indigenous households: The role of labour market and household dynamics," Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School, vol. 21(1), pages 21-44.

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