Welfare State



The first post in this series looked at how much the UK government spends on social security and welfare, with a focus on assistance for… Read More ›

How Generous is the British Welfare State? Part 3: Comparing Assistance for Households

The discussion in the first part of this series – like most analyses of social expenditure – is based on gross (before tax) public expenditure… Read More ›

How Generous Is the British Welfare State? Part 2: The Social Division of Welfare – Taxation, the Public and Private Mix and Redistribution

On 17 November, the Chancellor is now due to publish the government’s fiscal rules alongside an OBR forecast and further spending and taxing measures. We… Read More ›

How Generous Is the British Welfare State?

With all the talk of restraint and fiscal responsibility, you may have missed that this was also Australia’s first wellbeing budget. Measuring wellbeing reflects a… Read More ›

[October Budget 2022] Australia’s First Wellbeing Budget Leaves People Behind

Prior to the pandemic, the Australian Government’s policy approach to unemployment was to keep people attached to the labour market. The focus was on changing… Read More ›

Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s COVID-19 Response

Shame is a well-trodden theme in studies of life on social security payments. Attention to shame is part of a wider recognition that there is… Read More ›

Is Welfare Receipt Always Shameful?

The rise of super-computing and improved data linking capabilities have presented new opportunities for policymakers to draw on ‘big data’ to guide social policy development.… Read More ›

Big Data as Evidence for Social Investment: A Need for Critique and Caution

For a brief period when the JobSeeker unemployment benefit was increased to $550 per week and conditionality was relaxed, Australians had access to a type… Read More ›

Has COVID-19 Opened the Door to an Australian Basic Income?

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