Research topic: Dynamics of income support and employment

Labour underutilisation, comprising both unemployment and underemployment, is a key focus of much of the research undertaken within the Labour Economics and Social Policy research program. Issues examined by research projects include the extent, nature, consequences and causes of underutilisation of labour and the effectiveness of government policy interventions aimed at alleviating unemployment.

Researchers at the Melbourne Institute have undertaken a number of studies of welfare reliance and, more particularly, of income support recipients. Issues examined include the extent and nature of reliance on income support payments, the determinants of patterns of receipt and the impacts of government programs on exit from payments.

 

Projects commenced in 2013

• Income Support and In-payment Incentives to Work Project Description
• Outcomes of Jobs Education Training (JET) Child Care Fee Assistance Recipients Project Description
• Labour Force Potential of Disability Support Pension Recipients Project Description

Projects commenced in 2012

• The Labour Force Participation and Income Support Duration of People with Disability with Partial Capacity to Work Project Description

Projects commenced in 2011

There were no projects on this topic in 2011.

Projects commenced in 2010

• Activation and Welfare Dependency Final Report
• Employment Retention in an Economic Downturn Final Report
• Dynamics of Future Mature Age Workforce Participation Final Report

Projects commenced in 2009

• Transitions of Income Support Recipients with Incapacity Exemptions Final Report
• Impact of Education and Training on Income Support Recipients Final Report
• Successful and Unsuccessful Pathways to Employment Final Report

Projects commenced in 2008

• Location economics of income support recipients - extension project Final report
• Combining income support and earnings Final Report
• Experience of income support recipients with a mental illness Final report
• Dynamics of household joblessness in Australia 2001-2007 Final report

Projects commenced in 2007

• Teenage mothers' income support, education and paid work Final Report
• Human Capital and the Patterns of Employment and Welfare Receipt Final Report
• Job Retention and Advancement of Disadvantaged Jobseekers Project Description

Projects commenced in 2006

• Location economics of income support recipients Final Report
• Working credits - a low cost alternative to universal income tax credits? Final Report
• Link between changes in employment and changes in income support Final Report
• Labour Market Transitions and Dynamics in Australia: An Analysis of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey Project Description
• Low Pay Dynamics: Do Low Paid Jobs Lead to Increased Earnings and Lower Welfare Dependency Over Time? Final Report
• Use of Informal Childcare Decisions on Work by Income Support Recipients Final Report

Projects commenced in 2005

• Income support reliance in Australia Final Report
• Previous income support experience of people granted DSP Final Report
• An examination of welfare transitions using the first three waves of the HILDA Survey Final Report
• Jobless households: longitudinal analysis of the persistance and determinants of joblessnes using HILDA data for 2001-2003 Final Report
• Income support spells initiated by unemployment: Commonalities and heterogeneities across population groups in duration and determination of duration Final Report
• The Dynamics of Income Support Receipt among 'New' Income Support Recipients Final Report
• Transitions from Casual Employment in Australia Final Report
• Synthesis of Melbourne Institute Research 2000 to 2005 Final Report
• The Dynamics and Persistance of Income Poverty in Australia Project Description

Projects commenced in 2004

• The Melbourne Institute Analysis of the Australian Labor Party's Tax and Family Benefit Package
• Working hours and labour market transitions

Projects commenced in 2003

• Understanding the nature of and factors behind exits from the Disability Support Pension
• Dynamic properties of income support receipt in Australia

Projects commenced in 2002

• Labour market outcomes and welfare participation of persons with disabilities in Australia
• International comparison of trends in the polarisation of employment

Projects commenced in 2001

• Effect of changes to activity test arrangements on exit from payments - A: Mutual Obligation
• Effect of changes to activity test arrangements on exit from payments - B: Intensive Review
• Effect of changes to activity test arrangements on exit from payments - C: Job seeker diary
• Effect of changes to activity test arrangements on exit from payments - D: Work for the dole
• Reliance on income support
• Movement between payment types