Archives
Family – Work Balance
1. Demographics of work and family
a. Trends in workforce participation of parents with young children. Change over time and across the life course. Who works and who doesn't?
b. Fertility and workplace policy re families
2. Use of formal and informal child care
3. Influence of paid work on family life
4. Economics of workforce participation decisions: incl disincentives
5. The changing organisation of work and impact on family
a. Extent of workplace flexibility for family issues
b. Unsocial hours
c. Impact of industrial changes on family life
6. Attitudes and preferences
a. Attitudes about work and family issues
b. Reasons for mothers working
c. Work preferences of mothers with young children
7. Domestic division of labour with arrival of children
8. Work and family in later life
a. Elder care
b. Synchronised retirement
9. Role of law, government and other regulations in the work family balance
a. Industrial legislation, determinations, child care and other benefits
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