The price of prosperity : the economic and social costs of unemployment
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The price of prosperity : the economic and social costs of unemployment
UNSW Press, 2002
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Special project of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While our leaders celebrate Australia's 'economic miracle', unemployment, particularly long-term unemployment, has become a permanent feature of Australia's economic landscape. Its unacceptably high level has proved remarkably resistant in the face of sustained economic growth and increased prosperity. The adverse economic and social consequences of high unemployment are likely to leave long-term scars on those affected, as well as on local communities and the entire fabric of Australian society. Yet these effects rarely feature on the policy agenda, and the costs of unemployment remain largely invisible. The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment identifies for the first time the nature and impact of these costs at three distinct levels: those imposed directly on unemployed people and their families; those that affect the nature of community life; and those that give rise to economy-wide effects on Australian society.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The reality and costs of unemployment
- Peter Saunders
- 2 The contours and dynamics of unemployment in Australia
- Stephen Bell
- 3 Identifying and quantifying the costs of unemployment
- Tony Eardley
- 4 Unemployment and family life
- Janet Taylor
- 5 Youth unemployment: Aggregate incidence and consequences for individuals
- Bruce Chapman and Matthew Gray
- 6 An overview of the costs of indigenous unemployment
- Boyd Hunter and John Taylor
- 7 What happens when you are retrenched from an old declining industry? Michael Webber and Sally Weller
- 8 From job abundance to job scarcity: Unemployment, social policy and community life, 1960s-1990s
- Lois Bryson and Ian Winter
- 9 The impact of unemployment on poverty, inequality and social exclusion
- Peter Saunders
- 10 Health effects of unemployment
- Richard Taylor and Stephen Morrell
- 11 The psychological impact of unemployment
- Bruce Headey
- 12 The impact of unemployment on crime
- Don Weatherburn
- 13 Policies to minimise the costs of unemployment
- JW Neville
- Index
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