The CDEP scheme: Administrative and policy issues
Jon Altman William Sanders The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is a program whereby Aboriginal community councils receive grants roughly equivalent to the social security...
View ArticleThe participation of Aboriginal people in the Australian labour market
Anne Daly This paper is the first of two that examine the participation and employment of Aborigines in the formal labour market using data from the 1986 Population Census. The labour force...
View ArticleThe impact of welfare on the economic status of Aboriginal women
Anne Daly Despite the relatively low levels of employment among Aboriginal women, their average income, according to the 1986 Census, was not substantially lower than the average income of Australian...
View ArticleGeographic location and Aboriginal economic status: A census-based analysis...
John Taylor This paper utilises 1986 Census data to examine the demographic and economic characteristics of Aboriginal people in Australia's remotest locations. In so doing three objectives are...
View ArticleAboriginal expenditure patterns: An analysis of empirical data and its policy...
Diane Smith Assessments of the adequacy of government social security programs, of taxation policy, the equity of income distribution and of the impact on Australian households of changing economic...
View ArticleToward an Aboriginal household expenditure survey: Conceptual, methodological...
Diane Smith Government assessment of the appropriateness and impact of policies and related programs aimed at improving the economic well-being of Aboriginal people could be considerably enhanced by...
View ArticleAboriginal economic status by ATSIC regions: analyses of 1986 Census data
Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis This paper examines differences in Aboriginal socioeconomic status between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) regions. The administration of programs...
View ArticleAppropriate income support for Aboriginal Australians: Options for the 1990s
Jon Altman This paper focuses specifically on income support options for Aboriginal Australians, and an attempt is made, for analytical purposes, to isolate income from employment issues. Particular...
View ArticleAboriginal Employment Equity by the Year 2000
Jon Altman The papers in this volume, which are a selection of papers presented at an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australian workshop in March 1991, examine the employment status of Australian...
View ArticleAboriginal unemployment statistics: policy implications of the divergence...
Diane Smith Aboriginal unemployment in Australia has reached chronic proportions. Official 1986 Census data estimate the Aboriginal unemployment rate at 35.3 per cent, almost four times higher than...
View ArticleLiving off the land in national parks: issues for Aboriginal Australians
Jon Altman Linda Allen Aboriginal people resident in, or traditional owners of, national parks have highly variably legal rights to harvest subsistence resources. In the absence of common law rights...
View ArticleFunding allocations to Aboriginal people: the Western Australia case
Bill Arthur This paper attempts to identify the sources of special funding in Aboriginal affairs in Western Australia and how these allocations are spent. First, an assessment is made of the funds...
View ArticleThe employment of Aboriginal Australians in the labour market
Anne Daly This paper is the second of two examining the effect of Aboriginality on employment and labour market status using data from the 1986 Population Census. It begins by presenting the data from...
View ArticleSpatial mobility of working age Aborigines in settled and remote Australia: a...
John Taylor Despite the potential for government employment policies to influence the rate and incidence of migration among the Aboriginal workforce, little is known about the extent to which such...
View ArticleSocial indicators of the Aboriginal population of Australia
Alan Gray Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis This paper presents social indicators of the Aboriginal population in the context of the rapid demographic change that has taken place in the population. The paper...
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