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dc.contributor.authorPreston, Alison
dc.contributor.authorJefferson, Therese
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:13:59Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:13:59Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:36:39Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationPreston, Alison and Jefferson, Therese. 2005. Australia's "Other" Gender Wage Gap: Baby Boomers and Compulsory Superannuation Accounts. Feminist Economics 11 (2): 79-101.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29609
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13545700500115902
dc.description.abstract

Government budgetary pressures and demographic trends have made retirement income policy a priority in developed economies. One option for policy reform is to increase private saving. In Australia, legislation requiring compulsory employer payments for the purposes of retirement savings addresses this option. This system poses particular difficulties for women who have broken patterns of paid employment and relatively low wages. When simulations that project likely employment participation and retirement outcomes incorporate a gendered approach and focus on the ''baby boomer'' cohort, the results highlight the low probability that women will accumulate adequate independent private retirement income. Over their lifetimes, Australian women baby boomers will spend around 35 percent less time in paid employment than their male counterparts. The projected average gender gap in compulsory accumulations is of a similarly large magnitude. The results emphasize the continuing need for publicly financed redistribution schemes, such as the Australian age pension.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectretirement
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectpensions
dc.subjectwage gap
dc.subjectsuperannuation
dc.subjectaging
dc.titleAustralia's "Other" Gender Wage Gap: Baby Boomers and Compulsory Superannuation Accounts
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume11
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.monthjul
dcterms.source.startPage79
dcterms.source.endPage101
dcterms.source.titleFeminist Economics
curtin.note

Preston, Alison and Jefferson, Therese (2005) Australia's "Other" Gender Wage Gap: Baby Boomers and Compulsory Superannuation Accounts, Feminist Economics 11(2):79-101.

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Feminist Economics is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/

curtin.identifierEPR-3060
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available
curtin.facultyCurtin Business School
curtin.facultyGraduate School of Business


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