Addressing entrenched disadvantage in Australia

BSL researchers Francisco Azpitarte and Eve Bodsworth wrote a chapter—'Persistent disadvantage: a duration analysis based on HILDA data’—for a report: Addressing entrenched disadvantage in Australia, published in April, 2015.

They found that while poverty is relatively short-lived for many Australians who experience it, for some groups it can be persistent, drawing on data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey.

In particular, older Australians, the long-term unemployed, people with limited education, households where no-one has a job, households where at least one member has a disability—not just individuals with disabilities themselves—and people living in highly disadvantaged areas are more likely to remain poor.

The report is published by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).

Read our media release: A quarter who escape poverty are poor again in two years .