Family Matters article Sep 1999
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Mothers in the labour force
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Family Matters article Apr 2001
Family law update
This article represents a shortened version of the Executive Summary of a report by the authors of research undertaken into the operation of the Family Law Reform Act 1995, from the time it came into effect in June 1996 to the end of 1999.
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Research report Sep 2001
Ageing yet diverse
Australia’s population is ageing, and its growth is slowing down due to remarkable advances in medicine, health care and birth control.
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Living standards of older people and policy implications for their grandchildren
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Research report May 2002
Determinants of Australian mothers’ employment
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Census to analyse the factors which explain the employment gap.
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Family Matters article May 2003
Competing family models, competing social policies
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Research report Dec 2003
Measuring the value of unpaid household, caring and voluntary work of older Australians
This paper demonstrates that older people make valuable economic contributions to Australian society through the time they spend in voluntary work.
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Family Matters article Dec 2003
The role of families in an ageing Australia
This article looks at the role of families and the challenges they face in changing social and economic circumstances of an ageing Australian population.
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Family Matters article Dec 2003
Older migrants and their families in Australia
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Family Matters article Dec 2003
The value of unpaid work of older Australians
This article seeks to provide more balance to the debate about the cost of older people in an ageing society and to estimate the financial value of some of the ongoing contributions of older people that are not measured in national accounts, as well as providing estimates of the financial value of the unpaid contributions of older people - both to their family and to the wider community.