This paper provides estimates of the effects of divorce on the lifetime incomes of mothers. This is an issue that is not well explored in most countries, and has been essentially untouched empirically in the Australian context. The paper extends the existingliterature, which has generally...

While the unemployment rate has fallen significantly in the last several years, it is still around 7 per cent at the beginning of 2000 and remains very high relative to the experience from 1950 to the mid-1970s. Nearly 200,000 of today’s unemployed have been in that state for 12 months or...