Values unemployment and public policy

Abstract

Values, unemployment and public policy The need for a new direction

Daniel Perkins Philippa Angley Discussion paper 2003

Prepared as a discussion paper Brotherhood of St Laurence 67 Brunswick St Fitzroy Vic. 3065 ABN 24 603 467 024 Telephone (03) 9483 1183 Internet: www.bsl.org.au

The need for a new direction

Contents Executive summary

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Introduction

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1. Values and the market How it happened The transformation of values Can market economics deliver? Return to values Employment and social investment

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2. Unemployment Costs of unemployment

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3. New directions in social investment Environmental jobs Social and community service jobs

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Conclusion

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References

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Values, unemployment and public policy

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The need for a new direction

Executive summary The increasing impact of globalisation, combined with a change in values informing public policy, has resulted in significant change to Australian society over the past two and a half decades.