This book describes how families have changed in Australia over the last 30 years. It
presents statistics on the diversity of family types, the changes and transitions a family may …

This paper reviews evidence about the incidence and impact of unemployment on the
family. It finds that while the unemployment rate faced by husbands and wives is relatively …

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence is a standard form license agreement
that allows you to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this publication provided that you …

This book explores the relationship between economic liberalism and social policy in
Australia. How do social policies operate in a fiercely individualist market economy, and …

The Growth of Jobless Households in Australia Page 1 The Australian Economic Review, vol.
35, no. 2, pp. 133–54  The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic …

Social exclusion is a multi-dimensional measure of disadvantage that spans a number of
aspects of an individual's life that impact upon their current and future wellbeing. For young …

Structural shifts in labour markets and in households are impacting on the capacity of
households and families to deal with risk. In Australia the post-Federation and post-war …

General Equilibrium Theory studies the properties and operation of free market economies.
The field is a response to a series of questions originally outlined by Leon Walras about the …

Although employment levels in Australia are healthy when compared to those 20 years ago,
the distribution of work across households has become more unequal. The present paper …

While the lower rates of employment of lone mothers as compared with couple mothers has
been well documented, the reasons for the employment gap are less well understood. This …