The economic and social benefits of increasing Indigenous employment
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2014
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Gray, Matthew
Hunter, Boyd
Biddle, Nicholas
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Canberra, ACT : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), The Australian National University
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Relatively low rates of employment are one of the
reasons for many of the poor economic and social
outcomes experienced by Indigenous Australians.
Increases in the rate of Indigenous employment would
result in significant economic gains to the individuals
who move into employment, and their families and
communities, to the government who would receive
higher tax revenues and have lower social security
outlays, and the economy as a whole via the increases
in the effective labour supply. The existing research also
finds that there are health and social benefits that flow
from paid employment (e.g. Biddle 2011; Hunter & Gray
2013).
This paper, using the latest available data and research,
provides estimates of the likely economic and social
benefits of increasing Indigenous employment to the
same level as in the non-Indigenous population (i.e.
closing the employment gap).
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