Inclusive Growth in Australia: Social Policy as Economic Investment

ISBN-13: 9781743311301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 592 str.

Paul Smyth; John Buchanan

Opis

Inclusive Growth explores a new synthesis of social and economic policy for Australia. It is based on the 'Inclusive Growth' roundtable hosted by the University of Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence partnership in October 2011. The hosts brought together leading thinkers from key institutions including the Workplace Research Centre University of Sydney (WRC), the Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW), the Grattan Institute, the Business Council of Australia, and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who have all been engaged with this policy challenge. Inclusion and growth can indeed be compatible. Numerous leaders of the economics profession have been calling for some time for the reinvigoration of the radical reform ethos of the late twentieth century. This book shares that sense of imperative, but not the ethos that saw welfare as harmful to growth. The authors detail the way in which the benefits of growth were skewed to the rich. To enjoy legitimacy, any new Australian economic reform agenda must have a stronger role for social policy and redistribution. This book investigates what an inclusive growth strategy might look like in Australia in five parts: the national and international policy context; the question 'has growth been good for the poor?'; meeting the productivity challenge; social infrastructure and productivity; and labor market flexibility and social security."

Spis treści

List of figures and tables

Contributors

Introduction - Paul Smyth and John Buchanan

PART I: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS

1 Economic development and inclusive growth: China and India - Pradeep Taneja

2 Social investment, inclusive growth and the Australian way - Paul Smyth

PART II: IS GROWTH INCLUSIVE IN AUSTRALIA?

3 Was economic growth in Australia pro-poor? - Francisco Azpitarte

4 Changing employment portfolios and inclusive growth in Australia: Redistributing risks at work - John Buchanan, Gary Dymski, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams and Serena Yu

PART III: AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGY

5 Productivity and inclusive growth - Saul Eslake

6 Social inclusion and the innovation agenda - Don Scott-Kemmis and Roy Green

7 Skills for growth and social inclusion - Gerald Burke

PART IV: SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, PRODUCTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION

8 Social inclusion, education and inclusive growth - Hielke Buddelmeyer

9 Health and human capital - Anthony Harris

PART V: SOCIAL SECURITY IN A FLEXIBLE ECONOMY

10 To fix a flaw and fix the floor: Unemployment insurance for Australia - Grant Belchamber

11 Income support, inequality and social risks - Peter Whiteford

12 Inclusive growth: The role of active labour market interventions - Michael Horn

13 Women, work and elder care: New policies required for inclusive growth - Marian Baird and Alexandra Heron

14 Inclusive growth and adult ageing - Simon Biggs

Notes

Index

O autorze

PAUL SMYTH is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne, and General Manager of the Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Melbourne. This joint position involves leading research and the development of policy around partnership solutions to Australia's social problems. His work combines policy development and research at the BSL with teaching and research at the University's Centre for Public Policy.

JOHN BUCHANAN is Professor and Director of the Workplace Research Centre (WRC) in the Sydney Business School. In recent years, John's research interests have focused on changes associated with the demise of the classical wage earner model of employment. He is especially interested in new approaches to integrating industrial relations, social and economic policies to achieve simultaneous improvements in productivity and fairness.