Market liberalization and increasing social inequality in Australia. Facts and perceptions.

Autor/inn/en	Western, John; Chesters, Jenny
Titel	Market liberalization and increasing social inequality in Australia. Facts and perceptions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Marktliberalisierung und Anstieg der sozialen Ungleichheit in Australien. Fakten und Wahrnehmungen.
Quelle	Aus: Suter, Christian (Hrsg.): Inequality beyond globalization. Economic changes, social transformations, and the dynamics of inequality. Wien: Lit Verl. (2010) S. 361-384Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	World Society Studies. 2010
Beigaben	Tabellen 7; grafische Darstellungen 3
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-643-80072-5
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Telefoninterview; Vergleichende Forschung; Soziale Ungleichheit; Einstellung (Psy); Sozialhilfe; Geschlecht; Geschichte (Histor); Einkommensunterschied; Einkommen; Marktwirtschaft; Privathaushalt; Wirtschaft; Internationaler Vergleich; Analyse; Auswirkung; Deregulierung; Liberalisierung; Australien; Pazifischer Raum
Abstract	"Following the increasing impact of globalizing economic forces worldwide, Australia, like many other liberal democracies, moved to adopt neoliberal economic policies with an emphasis on increasing deregulation of economic markets. The economic changes instituted since the 1980s have fundamentally restructured the economy and created a more flexible labor market. Jobs growth has been concentrated in industries that rely heavily on casual and part-time workers. Consequently, the proportion of all jobs that are permanent and Full-time has declined. In this chapter, the authors are interested in how these changes have affected the level of income and wealth inequality within Australian society. Although there is a general agreement amongst researchers that there has not been a significant increase in inequality in regard to either income or wealth between the 1980s and the 2000s, some researchers argue that earnings inequality has increased. There is also evidente of a mismatch between objective measures of inequality and the perceptions of the Australian people, with a significant majority of respondents in a national survey conducted in 2005 believing that Australia had become a more divided and less fair society since the 1980s. The present chapter examines these disparities and attempts to account for them." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2012/1