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Children with Jobless parents: National and Small Area Trends for Australia in the Past Decade

Miranti, Riyana; Harding, Ann; McNamara, Justine; Ngu, … - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 13 (2010) 1, pp. 27-47

This paper examines national and spatial trends in the number and proportion of children with jobless parents during the past decade. At the national level, we found that the number of dependent children living in households where no parent had a job fell from around 756,000 in 1995-96 to around...

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The Fertility Transition Around the World - 1950-2005

Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across the world using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twin peaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: a high-fertility … regime and a low fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the two fertility regimes …

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Why we should all care about social institutions related to gender inequality

Branisa, Boris; Klasen, Stephan; Ziegler, Maria - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2010

education, higher fertility rates and higher child mortality. Moreover, social institutions related to gender inequality are …

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago V. de V.; Tavares, José - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labor force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labor market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per capita …

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The labour market plans of parenting payment recipients: information from a randomised social experiment

Barrett, Garry F.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 3, pp. 192-205

This paper reports the preliminary results of a randomised social experiment conducted by the Department of Family and Community Services involving approximately 5,000 Parenting Payment customers. Three samples of Parenting Payment customers were randomly selected. One sample was asked to...

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Trends in child care use and cost between 1999 and 2002

McNamara, Justine; Cassells, Rebecca - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 125-146

Despite the widely-acknowledged importance of high quality, affordable child care, quantitative research into child care policy in Australia is relatively limited. In this study, recently-released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 1999 and 2002 Child Care Surveys are used to...

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Disadvantaged among Australian young mothers

Bradbury, Bruce - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 147-171

increased over the last 20 years. The main reasons for this disadvantage lie in the factors that determine fertility at young …

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Time Use Among new mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Care work and gender aspects of superannuation tax concessions

Smith, Julie - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 2, pp. 99-114

Population aging requires policies addressing ‘population, participation and productivity’. By failing to acknowledge women’s productive work in the unpaid care economy, current retirement income policies may reduce incentives to invest in children, the future labour force, and thereby...

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Exploring the Work-Family Policies Mothers Say Would Help After the Birth of a Child

Renda, Jennifer; Baxter, Jennifer - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 12 (2009) 1, pp. 65-87

Increased rates of employment amongst mothers with young children over recent years has stimulated debate about how governments and employers can support mothers to effectively combine paid work with caring for young children. This paper examines mothers’ perceived usefulness of a range of...

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The Distribution of Household Income in Marriage

Ogawa, Hikaru - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 3, pp. 261-275

This paper deals with three topics which have been neglected in the economics of the family literature. First, how is the distribution of household income endogenously determined within a marriage? Second, what is the desirable allocation of authority to determine the sharing rule of household...

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