Family Matters article Aug 1992
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Capital gains and locational disadvantage
This article draws on house price data for the period 1974 to 1990 in each local government area in the Melbourne Statistical District, and asks whether house price increases simply reflect inflation, or if families who are home owners and buyers gain in wealth through their home ownership.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Work and family values, preferences and practice
This article considers innovations in the organised care of both children and elderly family members during working hours for workers with family responsibilities.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Caring families
In this article a brief overview is presented of the Institute's book 'Who helps: support networks and social policy in Australia', and of the implications of some of the findings.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Trapped in poverty
Using data from the Institute of Family Studies' Parents and Children after Marriage Breakdown study, the author examines the difficulties sole mothers encounter when they attempt to escape poverty by finding paid work.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Living day to day
The paper examines the effects of the recession on 54 families with at least one unemployed member and a low income or families who were experiencing severe economic hardship for some other reason such as a substantial decline in the income of self-employed people.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Stepfathers in children's lives
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Family skills training program
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Housing costs and unemployed families
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Sharing the caring: Rethinking current policies