Labour market outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Gray M, Howlett, M & Hunter, B
Year published: 2014
Recent research has identified a substantial increase in Indigenous mainstream employment since the mid-1990s, but there has been relatively little regional analysis of such employment. The aim of this article is to build on this previous research using the 2006 and 2011 censuses to provide a more…
Partial effects in ordered response models with factor variables
Author/editor: Hodge A and Shankar, S
Year published: 2014
Interpretation in nonlinear regression models that include sets of dummy variables representing categories of underlying categorical variables is not straightforward. Partial effects giving the differences between each category and the reference category are routinely computed in the empirical…
Public Priorities for Government Expenditure
Year published: 2014
ANUpoll finds support for government spendingDespite the current climate of austerity and Federal Government budget cuts, Australians want to see increased government spending on social services, according to the new ANUpoll on public priorities for government spending.“The release of the latest…
Responding to concerns about a study of infant overnight care post-separation, with comments on consensus: Reply to Warshak
Author/editor: McIntosh, JE, Smyth, BM, & Kelaher, M. A.
Year published: 2014
Richard Warshak (see record 2014-03984-002) published a “consensus report” in this journal (Vol. 20, No. 1) documenting a policy position on infants and overnight care following parental separation. He asserts that “[t]here is no evidence to support postponing the introduction of regular and…
The economic consequences of divorce in Australia
Author/editor: de Vaus, D, Gray, M, Qu, L & Stanton, D
Year published: 2014
Divorce has become a key life-course risk that can have significant economic impacts. This article uses a new Australian data source that follows families over a 10-year period to estimate the impact of divorce on income and assets. There have been few longitudinal studies of the impact of divorce…
The impact of drought on mental health in rural and regional Australia
Author/editor: Edwards B, Gray, M & Hunter, B
Year published: 2014
While the economic and environmental impacts of drought have been widely studied, there are few large-scale studies that have examined the impact of drought on mental health. This paper is one of the first to provide estimates of the impact of drought on mental health using a large-scale…
The power of the pram: do young children determine female job satisfaction?
Author/editor: Kifle T, Kler, P & Shankar, S
Year published: 2014
Policy-makers worldwide have attempted a number of strategies over the last few decades to increase female labour-force participation without jeopardizing their choice of also maintaining a fulfilling family life, should they choose to do so. One such Australian strategy heavily subscribed by…