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Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Research

How do income support recipients engage with the labour market?

Policy Research Paper 12 / Paul Flatau and Mike Dockery. June 2001

This paper reports the results from an analysis of how income support recipients interact with the labour market. It explores the take-up of part-time employment options by income support recipients and develops a statistical model of the factors influencing employment take-up.

Data used in the analysis was obtained from the department's Longitudinal (administrative) Data Set (LDS).

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