Economic impacts of illness in older workers: quantifying the impact of illness on income, tax revenue and government spending

Table 4 National annual impact of persons not in the labour force due to ill health (adjusted for age, sex and education) for the Australian population aged 45-64 years, 2009

	Income	Transfer Payments	Taxation Revenue
Not in labour force due to ill health	17,989,175,000	1,468,007,000	2,052,384,000

Note: Based on the differences between persons not in the labour force due to ill health and the weighted average of persons employed full time and part time

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