Household relocation modelling is an integral part of the planning process as residential movements influence the demand for community facilities and services. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) created the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) program to collect reliable longitudinal data on family and household dynamics. S...

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an ordered probit selection model with an incidental threshold, thus offering a flexible strategy to address...

An integrated approach to temporary migration in developing countries is proposed by linking past urban labour-force experience to postreturn entrepreneurial activities. The central argument is that labour migration is a family strategy to acquire both physical and human capital for a future technological transformation. On the basis of an in-depth survey of returned migrants that was conducted...

We conceptualise life course pathways to entrepreneurship embedded in the resource-based view of the small enterprise. As a partial test, we propose a specific pathway structured by class and mediated by gender relations. This is operationalized employing 18 waves of the British Household Panel Survey and event history random effect logistic regression modelling. Findings suggest a primary, cla...

Several countries had an increase in female labour participation during the twentieth century. Even so, few of them can be proud of the conditions these women faced in dealing with family responsibilities and the labour market. This paper analyses the occupational distribution of men and women from 1978 to 2007 using the microdata of Pnad. It shows that women are entering traditional male occup...

The Determinants of Motherhood and Work Status: A Survey In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in European countries, and provide several interpretations of the differences across countries. Several recent analyses have considered labour supply and fertility as a joint decision and have explicitly taken into account ...

This paper explores the impact number of child(ren) and age on participation in labour force by married women China. Using logistic regression models with latest Chinese Family Panel Studies data, results show that: (1) odds LFP (Labour Force Participation) has decreased 20.7 per cent for one child 37.7 two or more children compared those without any child; (2) childbearing is stronger who are ...

This paper reports on research being conducted as part of the research program, “The Dynamics of Economic and Social Change: An Analysis of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey”. It is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0342970). The paper uses the data in the confidentialised unit record file from the Department of Family and Community Servi...

there is an emerging consensus that caring and compassion are under threat in the frenetic environment of modern healthcare. enabling and sustaining compassionate care requires not only a focus on the needs of the patient, but also on those of the care giver. as such, threats and exhortations to health professionals are likely to have limited and perverse effects and it is to the organisational...

The burden placed on individuals aged 40 to 59 – especially on women – by competing demands from work and both older and younger family members is often addressed using the metaphor of the “sandwich generation“. Based on a systematization of the definitions used in the literature, empirical evidence on the frequency of such generational constellations and on their impact on the well-being of sa...