Work and family directions in the US and Australia

The proposed paper will provide a comparative glimpse of work/family issues in Australia and the U.S. using existing studies. Policies, both governmental and private, will be detailed to highlight differences, similarities, and opportunities for each society to learn from the other. Finally, potential avenues for new, policy-oriented research will be explored with an eye towards the creation of comparable data across the two nations.

This project will seek to develop summary measures of reliance on income support payments, and to apply those measures to the LDS to obtain descriptive information on reliance on payments in Australia between 1995 and 2000.

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Project was completed in the first quarter 2002.

Research paper arising from the project is: