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Employment/unemployment

Sole Parent Family Support in Australia: Income Support and Labour Market Issues

Bettina Cass
Issue 01 November 1993


Lone Parents and Paid Work: Issues and Policy Implications

Marlene Levine and Helen Wyn
Issue 01 November 1993


Facilitation of Sole Parents into Paid Work

Alan Nixon and Fiona McCulloch
Issue 02 July 1994


Rising on the Tasman Tide: Income Inequality in New Zealand and Australia in the 1980s

Peter Saunders
Issue 02 July 1994


The Fall and Rise(??) of Household Incomes

Mary Mowbray and Neela Dayal
Issue 02 July 1994


One Hundred Years of Labour Force Participation: Some Comments

Lisa Davies with Natalie Jackson
Issue 03 December 1994


What does Employment Change have in Store for the Unemployed in the 1990s?

Vasantha Krishnan
Issue 03 December 1994


Modest but Adequate: An Appraisal of Changing Income Circumstances in New Zealand

Vasantha Krishnan
Issue 04 July 1995


Employee Drug Testing: Implications for Policy

Michael Webb
Issue 05 December 1995


Active Labour Market Policies: Let's Be Careful Out There

Graeme Scott
Issue 05 December 1995


Breastfeeding, Labour Market Changes and Public Policy in New Zealand: Is Promotion of Breastfeeding Enough?

Judith Galtry
Issue 05 December 1995


Tackling Unemployment: The Government's Response to the Recommendations of the Employment Task Force

Marianne Bray, Justin Strang
Issue 06 July 1996


Institutional Labour Economics, Benefit Levels and Unemployment

Moira Williams
Issue 06 July 1996


Directors of Conscience: Feminism, Foucault and Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) in the Public Service

Deborah Jones
Issue 07 December 1996


New Zealand Families: Size, Income and Labour Force Participation

Kim Johnstone, Ian Pool
Issue 07 December 1996


Anne Else: False Economy: New Zealand Face the Conflict Between Paid and Unpaid Work

Robin Fleming
Issue 07 December 1996


Raising Work Levels Among the Poor

Lawrence M. Mead
Issue 08 March 1997


Workfare: The New Zealand Experience and Future Directions

Alex McKenzie
Issue 08 March 1997


Lowering the Barriers to Work in Britain

Alan Marsh
Issue 08 March 1997


The Work Approach in Norway: Aims, Measures and Results

Torkel Bjornskau, Espen Dahl, Jens B. Grogaard
Issue 08 March 1997


Energy Link: A Support Service Focusing on Prevention and Early Intervention

John Murphy
Issue 08 March 1997


Designing Work-Focused Welfare Replacement Programmes

Jean Rogers
Issue 08 March 1997


Universal Basic Income and the Concept of Citizenship

Michael Goldsmith
Issue 09 November 1997


A New Fiscal Contract? Constructing a Universal Basic Income and a Social Wage

Keith Rankin
Issue 09 November 1997


Balancing the Three E's: Equality, Efficiency and Employment

Charles Waldegrave
Issue 10 June 1998


Universal Basic Income - A Cure or a Worse Disease?

David Preston
Issue 10 June 1998


Universal Basic Income and its Critics: a Reply to Preston

Michael Goldsmith
Issue 10 June 1998


Rejoinder to David Preston

Keith Rankin
Issue 10 June 1998


Work Rich and Work Poor Individuals and Families: Changes in the Distribution of Paid Work from 1986 to 1996

Paul Callister
Issue 10 June 1998


Unemployment to Self-Employment: The Long and Winding Road?

Judy McGregor, David Tweed
Issue 10 June 1998


Some Geographic Dimensions of Being Work-Rich and Work-Poor: Changes between 1986 and 1996

Paul Callister
Issue 11 December 1998


Robyn Fleming: The Common Purse: Income Sharing in New Zealand Families

Maureen Baker
Issue 11 December 1998


The Assessment of Residual Capacity for Work: Easier Said Than Done

Grant Duncan
Issue 12 July 1999


Changing Expectations: Sole Parents and Employment in New Zealand

Kay Goodger, Peter Larose
Issue 12 July 1999


New Zealand Disability Employment Policy in the 1990s

Neil Lunt
Issue 12 July 1999


The Policy Response to the Employment Task Force and Changing Patterns of Domestic Purposes Benefit Receipt: A Cohort Analysis

Moira Wilson
Issue 14 July 2000


Mauri Tu: The Tomoana Resource Centre – An Intervention Following Job Loss

Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora A Eru Pōmare
Issue 15 July 2001


Diversity as a Productive Resource: Employment of Immigrants from Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds in New Zealand

Noel Watts, Andrew Trlin
Issue 15 July 2001


Recent Trends in the Employment Rate of Sole Mothers in New Zealand

Kay Goodger
Issue 16 July 2001


Stereotypes and Older Workers: The New Zealand Experience

Judy McGregor and Lance Gray
Issue 18 June 2002


The New Zealand Conference on Database Integration and Linked Employer-Employee Data

Matt Spittal
Issue 18 June 2002


Human Capital Issues in an Ageing Workforce

Judith A. Davey
Issue 20 June 2003


Work Poor or Working Poor? A Comparative Perspective On New Zealand’s Jobless Households

Susan G. Singley and Paul Callister
Issue 20 June 2003


Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value: Making Human Rights and Employment Rights Laws Work Together

Linda Hill
Issue 21 March 2004


Ill-Prepared for the Labour Market: Health Status in a Sample of Single Mothers on Welfare

Heather B. Worth and Karen E. McMillan
Issue 21 March 2004


Time-Use Data and Work–Life Policy Development

Paul Callister
Issue 22 July 2004


Aftermath: Using Research to Understand the Social and Economic Consequences of Workplace Injury and Illness

Frances Butcher
Issue 23 December 2004


New Zealand Conference on Pay and Employment Equity for Women

Celia Briar
Issue 23 December 2004


Work Participation among People with Disabilities: Does the Type of Disability Influence the Outcome?

John Jensen, Sathi Sathiyandra, Mike Rochford, Davina Jones, Vasantha   Krishnan and Keith McLeod
Issue 24 April 2005


Overworked Families? Changes in the Paid Working Hours of Families with Young Children, 1986 to 2001

Paul Callister
Issue 24 April 2005


YouthGrow: Developing Community with Youth through Employment

Vaughan Milner
Issue 25 July 2005


Women Officers Working in Men’s Prisons

Greg Newbold
Issue 25 July 2005


Barriers to Employment Identified by Blind and Vision-Impaired Persons in New Zealand

Steven J. La Grow, Paula Daye
Issue 26 November 2005


Work in Later Life – Opportunity or Threat?

Judith Davey, Mary Davies
Issue 27 March 2006


Ill Health, Disability, Benefit and Work: A Summary of Recent Research

Penny Beynon and Sarah Tucker
Issue 29 July 2006


The Longer-Term Employment Outcomes of People Who Move From a Benefit to Work

Sylvia Dixon and Sarah Crichton
Issue 31 July 2007


Changing the Culture of Contracting: Funding for Outcomes

Ann Pomeroy
Issue 31 July 2007


Baby Bonus or Paid Parental Leave -- Which one is Better?

Paul Callister, Judith Galtry
Issue 34 April 2009


Paid Parental Leave Under (New) Labour

Katherine Forbes
Issue 34 April 2009


Facilitating Fertility and Paid Work
Contemporary Family-Friendly Policy Initiatives and their Social Impacts in Australasia

Joanne James
Issue 34 April 2009


Making it Work: The Impacts of Flexible Working Arrangements on New Zealand Families

Lindy Fursman and Nita Zodgekar
Issue 35 June 2009


Parent's Long Work Hours and the Impact on Family Life

Lindy Fursman
Issue 35 June 2009


Juggling Acts: How Parents Working Non-Standard Hours Arrange Care for their Pre-School Children

Janine Moss
Issue 35 June 2009


Children in Families Supported by Main Benefits: An Update

Moira Wilson and Daniel Soughtton
Issue 36 July 2009