Low wage earners in Australia: A report prepared for the Brotherhood of St Laurence

Defines part of the workforce as low wage workers and then examines their characteristics in terms of employment, family type and income.

Australian Defence Force Families Mobility and Dislocation Study: Public report

Explores the mobility and dislocation experienced by members of the ADF, the effects on child care, children's education and spousal employment.

Australian Defence Force 1991: Families census public report

Prepared by Dr G Snider, Australian Institute of Family Studies, and Colonel C K Gillman-Wells, Headquarters Australian Defence Force.

Young people, families and disadvantage

A report commissioned by the Australian Department of Social Security

Report of stage one of the ADF Families Mobility and Dislocation study

Study represents part of the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) ongoing commitment to ameliorate family disadvantage arising out of Service requirements

Young people living on the urban fringe: Preliminary report: The youth of Berwick

Examines the life circumstances of the young people of Berwick, the issues they face and the policy implications of the information gathered

Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers

This paper concerns the factor of wages in attracting income support recipients into the work force.

Family break-up raises homelessness risk, and critical period is longer for boys

In the context of rising housing costs and financial stress, parental separation in low-income families can trigger greater risk of homelessness.

Latest Australian and Overseas Quality-of-Life Research

This article provides information on the First Conference of the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, held in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997. 

Low pay and family poverty