Work-testing the DPB for care-givers with children aged 6 or older started in September 2010.
The sole parent employment rates are picking up.
| 51.6 | 51.4 | 50.0 | 48.3 | 51.4 | 52.0 | 53.1 | 53.8 | 54.5 | ||||||||
| 34.4 | 34.2 | 32.8 | 34.6 | 38.6 | 27.8 | 29.9 | 37.6 | 39.2 |
But the overall unemployment rate is up. Which group is reducing their employment?
| Couple with one dependent child (first row) |
| Couple with two dependent children (second row) |
| 66.5 | 66.2 | 67.8 | 68.3 | 66.1 | 67.6 | 67.6 | 69.4 | 64.9 | ||||||||
| 65.3 | 67.0 | 67.7 | 66.1 | 65.8 | 64.8 | 65.2 | 67.9 | 66.8 |
When I find time I will graph these interesting developments.
4 comments:
Thats telling me that sole parents who are younger are responding to the work testing requirement by finding work, but older women who are sole parents have responded at well over twice the rate.. and the labour market likes perhaps their age and likely earlier work history.
The second group remains wedded to WFF because there's no incentive to get off it.
The cautionary note about the first 2 groups is that there are sufficient women who see a benefit as a benefit and not an entitlement and the second two groups see their WFF benefits as entitlements.. proving once again that the middle deciles (classes?) tend to capture Govt largess. Another caveat might be the the first two groups improvement is a sweeping up of the "loose change".. ie, picking up just those women who have work ability and who regard a benefit as an act of societal generosity as opposed to an entitlement.
Its a bit early to draw too many conclusions but the direction from the beneficiaries is very encouraging.. albeit that some will be trasiting from the benefit to WFF.
JC
"Its a bit early to draw too many conclusions..."
Amen to that JC.
Lindsay - off topic, but I see my old blog, Life Behind the IRon Drape, has just appeared in your blog roll, however that is not me anymore. In some type of what I thought was a technical glitch last year the blog at that address was deleted, and now I see someone has taken over that address and is running a science and technology blog from it (of all things). I guess that's life on the Internet.
You might want to remove that address from your blog roll though.
Um, I am in the process of resurrecting Life Behind the IRon Drape though at the following address:
http://lifebehindtheirondrape.blogspot.co.nz/
I hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as last one.
(Feel free to delete this post after you've read it, as it is OT).
Stop the benefits - and you can even stop measuring the numbers.
Buldgers don't need "incentives" - they just need to stop bludging.
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