Did the 2007 Welfare Reforms for Low Income Parents in Australia Increase Welfare Exits?

Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits ?

Transition Patterns for the Welfare Reliance of Low Income Mothers in Australia

Transition Patterns for the Welfare Reliance of Low Income Mothers in Australia This paper analyzes the mobility of low income mothers in Australia between two groups of governmental transfer payments: Income support payments (IS) and Family Payments (FP, non-income support payments) only. While IS payments are to provide a subsistence of living for her, FP payments are to help low-medium incom...

Welfare Reform in Australia:

Australia, in line with other developed countries, has increasingly adopted a ‘participation’ framework for Welfare Reform. This approach to welfare reform is based on the idea that moving people from ‘welfare to work’ is best facilitated by policies that balance three main policy levers – assistance, incentives and requirements. Using research and evaluation findings from Europe, the USA, the ...

Welfare receipt and substance-abuse treatment among low-income mothers: the impact of welfare reform.

OBJECTIVES We explored changing relations between substance use, welfare receipt, and substance-abuse treatment among low-income mothers before and after welfare reform. METHODS We examined annual data from mothers aged 18 to 49 years in the 1990-2001 National Household Survey of Drug Abuse and the 2002 National Survey of Drug Use and Health. Logistic regression was used to examine determinan...

Income Mobility and Welfare∗

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) component representing persistent changes in income. We use a tractable consumption-saving model...