Inequality In Australia
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| Author | : Andrew Leigh |
| Publisher | : Black Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2013-06-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1922231045 |
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s. Leigh shows that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias, occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born into poverty to enter the middle class. Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have – and keep – a fair go.
| Author | : Justin Healey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2019-07 |
| Genre | : Australia |
| ISBN | : 9781925339925 |
Australia has experienced its longest ever period of economic growth over the last quarter century. Yet, there is growing debate about the distribution of benefits from this growth, and the extent to which inequality is increasing. One in eight adults and more than one in six children are living in poverty, while the share of income going to the top is growing at the expense of low- and middle-income earners. Inequality extends beyond income to educational,postcode, intergenerational and technological inequality ¿ all of whichare at the core of opportunity. How are poverty and inequality measured;what are the features of deprivation experienced by people living withentrenched economic disadvantage, struggling with rising costs of living and housing pressures, reliant on social security and charity? Is Australia,long seen as the land of the egalitarian `fair go¿, now a divided nation of`haves¿ and `have-nots¿? How do we tackle economic disadvantage and poverty, and promote fairness and opportunity for all?
| Author | : Alastair Greig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2003-02-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521524421 |
This text seeks to analyse and explain inequality, challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective. The authors provide a comprehensive historical account of inequality, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms of inequality experienced in recent decades. As society has changed, they argue, new forms of inequality have emerged, conditioning the subject's very experience of identity, embodiment and politics. The book is at once a critical overview of contemporary inequality and a thorough-going textbook suitable for undergraduates.
| Author | : Frank Stilwell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2007-09-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 113946342X |
This 2007 book addresses important contemporary concerns about social justice. It presents detailed economic evidence, but analyses it in a manner that is engaging and readily accessible to the non-specialist reader. Who Gets What? examines what has been happening to incomes and wealth in Australia, what causes increased economic inequality, and the possibility of creating a more egalitarian society. It looks at who is rich, which social groups are still in poverty, and the policies that could redistribute income and wealth more effectively.
| Author | : David T. Johnson |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2013-11-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3662127296 |
Poverty, inequality and social welfare are defined in this book. Previous poverty studies are surveyed and a new index of poverty is developed based on everyday meanings, and stressing the individual and relative nature of poverty. Previous definitions of inequality and welfare are described and the relations between them and poverty are explored. New estimates of poverty are made for Australia. Conclusions are derived from comparisons between measured levels of poverty over time and across family types. Previous Australian studies of inequality and welfare are surveyed and new estimates are made for Australia for recent years.
| Author | : Maarten van Ham |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 2021-03-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 303064569X |
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns. High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.
| Author | : Frank J. B. Stilwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Australia |
| ISBN | : 9781107173620 |
| Author | : Daphne Habibis |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Social Inequality: Australia at the Crossroads provides comprehensive coverage of the key dimensions of the nature and extent of inequality and difference in Australian society. Incorporating debates about the effects of globalization on inequality and difference in Australia, it also considers the role of culture in the social reproduction of hierarchy and difference. Arguments about the nature of inequality are 'tested' against empirical evidence, and case studies in each chapter provide examples to aid understanding.
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| Release | : 1999 |
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| Author | : John Stuart Western |
| Publisher | : South Melbourne : Macmillan Company of Australia |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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Chapter 4 demonstrates that Aborigines have limited access to resources, facilities and services in Australian society; considers factors such as employment, income, education, health, access to health and welfare services, housing, experiences with legal system, land rights, participation in politics and public affairs.
