Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0774919
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Economic impacts of disease on older workers: Costs to government and individuals and opportunities for intervention. With an ageing workforce, Australia is at risk of having an inadequate workforce to ensure economic growth and to maintain sufficient taxation revenue to support future needs. This project will provide fill substantial gaps in the Australian evidence the health conditions that keep older workers out of the labour market and that diminish their own immediate and long-term livings standards and reduce funds available to government. We will address one of the most significant issues resulting fundamental changes to the demography of the Australian labour market and one is regularly raised by the Prime Minister and Treasurer in their speeches following the Intergenerational Report.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2007
End Date: 09-2011
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $260,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Health Economics | Health Promotion | Applied Economics | Welfare Economics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ability and disability | The distribution of wealth | Employment |
