This paper explores the influence of location on unemployment differentials within Australia's largest city, Sydney. It is suggested that spatial frictions impede the search processes of unemployed residents. The most important friction is related to physical accessibility to work. Despite...

In Australia, poverty is usually measured in two different ways; first according to the number of people who have incomes below a poverty line and, second, by the number who are in poverty after they have paid for their housing. This note calculates both measures for 1981/82 and analyses the...