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The price of prosperity : the economic and social costs of unemployment / edited by Peter Saunders and Richard Taylor
Bib ID 1784800
Format BookBook
Description Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2002. 
xiii, 278 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0868405418  0868405418 (pbk.) 
Summary

This text identifies the nature and impact of the economic and social costs of unemployment at three distinct levels: those imposed directly on unemployed people and their families; those that affect community life; and those that give rise to economy-wide effects on Australian society.

Full contents 1. Introduction. The reality and costs of unemployment / Peter Saunders -- 2. The contours and dynamics of unemployment / 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. The 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 / John Nevile. 
Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 270-271.

Subjects Unemployment - Economic aspects - Australia.  |  Unemployment - Social aspects - Australia.
Other Authors Taylor, Richard, epidemiologist  |  Saunders, Peter (Peter Gordon), 1948-
Details Collect From
NL 331.137994 P946
Copy: pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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N 331.137994 P946
Copy: pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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