How does the Australian child benefit package compare internationally?
Jonathan Bradshaw, Naomi Finch (SPRU) and Tony Eardley (SPRC)
Paper for the session
Australian Transfers and Inequality in Comparative Context
Australian Social Policy Conference 2003
University of New South Wales
Sydney
Wednesday 9 July 3.30 –5.00pm
SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, HESLINGTON, YORK, YO10 5DD, UK Tel: ++44 1904 321239, email: jrb1@york.ac.uk
SUMMARY This paper compares the structure and level of the ‘package’ of tax benefits, cash benefits, exemptions from charges, subsidies and services in kind which assist parents with the costs of raising children - in 22 industrialised countries as at July 2001. It is based on the model family method using national informants.1 The Australian package falls into a second group of countries overall. The package is comparatively more generous to low-income families.
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