Selectivity and Targeting in Income Support
The Australian Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2113543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Saunders (0000-0003-1368-1696, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 299-326 |
| Publication date | 1991-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279400018900 |
| OpenAlex | W2164111958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Australian income support system is often characterised as one of the most selective in the Western industrialised world. This paper examines the sense in which the Australian system is selective, and discusses the distinction between selectivity and targeting in income support provisions. Developments in social security outlays and recipient numbers over the last two decades are compared with those occurring since 1983, in order that the nature and impact of recent policies introduced to increase targeting can be identified. The analysis indicates that increases in recipient numbers have been the dominant factor underlying the past growth in social security expenditure. The distinction between selectivity and targeting of income support provisions is then explained with reference to the concepts of eligibility and entitlement. A framework is developed to illustrate how recent policies have restrained the growth in social security recipient numbers by policies which have increased income support targeting. These moves have not always produced a consistently more selective system of income support, an issue which is explored with the use of an index of the degree of selectivity of social security expenditures developed specifically for this purpose
Affect (linguistics) · Basic income · Development economics · Economics · Entitlement (fair division) · Income Support · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Order (exchange) · Public economics · Social security · Sociology · Finance · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |