International graduates have been shown to struggle in their transition to the host labour market after course completion. In Australia, international graduates typically fare worse than domestic graduates in the labour market, with new evidence pointing to a deterioration in their relative...

Australians who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and receive income support span a wide spectrum of working ages. Australian research has concentrated on NEETs aged 15–29 years, in line with international standards. This paper investigates extending the NEET concept to...

Drawing on life course and feminist sociological perspectives, our study had two aims. The first was to trace the accumulation of violence in women’s lives from childhood through young adulthood. The second was to examine how cumulative experiences of violence relate to young women’s risks...

The retention of international graduates has been deemed a viable approach to redressing skill shortages in many countries mainly owing to their local academic credentials. Notwithstanding, there is growing, albeit fragmented, evidence that international graduates who stayed on after course...

This paper examines young women’s experiences of early motherhood focusing on their aims and goals for the future. Young mothers face a particularly complex set of life circumstances by virtue of entering parenthood outside the normative age of motherhood and are likely to experience...

Adolescence is a period marked by changes in social relationships as well as increased risk of poor mental health. Using three waves of the K-cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (N = 4,048), we examined the role of familial stressful life events, parent support, friend...

This paper from social policy experts at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (Life Course Centre) identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID-19. Their analysis provides an...

A rise in services sector employment has led to increased attention on the myriad forms of labour workers must enact as part of their jobs. In this study, we extend prior studies to develop the concept of ‘social labour,’ whereby home care support workers—as an example of an increasingly...

Young motherhood is often framed as detrimental to the life chances of young women with research showing negative impacts on education and labor market outcomes. At the same time, qualitative research reports narratives of motherhood as a transformative experience, providing motivation for a...