Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support policy in facilitating the labor market adjustment of new arrivals. Although these two cohorts entered Australia only...

We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...

John Spencer / Susan Sinclair -- Comparative social policy and the politics of comparison / Roy Parker -- Research and policy in the personal social services / Olive Stevenson -- Law reform and social change / Hans Mohr -- Knowledge and city planning / Norman Dennis -- Anomie, ritualism, and...