Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle ...

Children on farms have been identified as a population vulnerable to injury. This review seeks identify child farm-related injury rates in Australia and determine the key hazards contributing risk factors. critical utilised PRISMA guidelines for database searching. Research from year 2000 onward was included well earlier seminal texts. Reference lists were searched, relevant research material e...

In this paper, the allocation of women’s time to housework and child-care is analysed using data from the 1997 Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS). The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect that the level of education has on the allocation of women’s time to non-market labour. It is shown that the usual negative-to-insignificant relationship between the level of education and the all...

Background and Purpose: Adolescence is considered as one of the most critical life periods since adolescents are being exposed to a variety of potential stimuli, whose inappropriate response to such stimuli would prevent their proper performance in society. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of choice theory-based group training on cognitive emotion regulation and parent-c...

The estimated relationship between the number of children and female labour supply is often negative; however, it is not clear whether this arises because of a causal effect of children on labour supply, or whether it is the result of heterogeneous preferences (women who have a preference for home-based activities have more children and a lower preference for market work). The fact that parents...

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This article examines one of the most infamous forms of rural labour in nineteenth-century No rfolk: the agricultural gang. Using Parliamentary Papers as its source, the paper argues that some previous interpretations of this form of organized labour have both exaggerated the scale of ganging in the county, and misrepresented the composition of agricultural gangs. It will be shown that, far fro...