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Unemployment, Participation and Family Incomes in the 1980s

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Microsimulation methods are used to estimate the impact of changing Australian participation and unemployment rates on the level and distribution of family disposable incomes between 1981‐82 and 1988‐89. Between 1983‐84 and 1988‐89 a fall in unemployment and an increase in the labour force participation of married women both led to significant increases in family disposable incomes Whilst the inequality increasing effect of the recession in the early 1980s was thus partly reversed, intra‐family employment patterns suggest that the increased incomes due to participation increases largely bypassed those married couples at the bottom end of the income distribution.

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  • Bruce Bradbury, 1992. "Unemployment, Participation and Family Incomes in the 1980s," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 68(4), pages 328-342, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:68:y:1992:i:4:p:328-342
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1992.tb01783.x
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    1. Peter Saunders, 1990. "Employment Growth and Poverty: An Analysis of Australian Experience, 1983-1990," Discussion Papers 0025, University of New South Wales, Social Policy Research Centre.
    2. Bruce Bradbury, 1992. "Unemployment, Participation and Family Incomes in the 1980s," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 68(4), pages 328-342, December.
    3. Scherer, P A, 1978. "The Perverse Additional Worker Effect in Australia," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 17(31), pages 261-275, December.
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