2005) in which concepts have been systematically defined and appropriately measured (Whitley & McKenzie 2005).The findings of the present study will assist in the design of inexpensive, safe and effective social capital interventions, focused on broadly-based and enjoyable community...

This study looks at whether the residual benefits retained by former Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients induce them to return to income support before the benefits expire. DSP recipients who leave the payment to work retain access to pensioner concession cards, including bulk-billing...

Australian families work and raise children in different contexts from those of families 50 or even 30 years ago. Technology, globalisation, flexible and deregulated labour markets, and the unprecedented movement of mothers back into the labour force have rewritten the way work and family...

The paper also provides an overview and comparison of methodologies commonly employed in labour market research. It demonstrates the danger of evaluating programs using short-term longitudinal data. It concludes by identifying a need for more reliable and up-to-date data, particularly...

The central message of this paper is that child poverty is much more complicated than just looking at income levels. In determining how a child's needs are met, it is important to consider how resources are shared and used within a household, the value of other services provided (eg child care,...

Using the ABS 1997 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, this paper examines the prevalence of mental health disorders for the unemployed, students, partnered women with children, unpartnered women with children, and people not in the labour force. Mental disorders are classified into...

The paper examines how the use of child care, the time parents spend with children, and parental wellbeing relate to parental employment. The analysis in this paper is based on Wave 1 of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC) confidentialised unit record file. Four themes are...

Helen Berry, Emma George, Peter Butterworth, Bryan Rodgers and Tanya Caldwell The paper identifies nine psychosocial factors that explain reliance on income support from one generation to the next. Psychosocial factors are defined as psychological development and social factors and the...