Family and Work

This research focuses on labour market behaviour and its consequences at the family level. Projects examine issues such as work-life balance, jobless households and family labour supply decisions.

Projects commenced in 2006

• Use of informal childcare and decisions on work by income support recipients

Projects commenced in 2004

• Family structure and work
• The consequences of long working hours
• Who uses child care, for what purpose, and what is their experience of balancing work and family life?
• The Melbourne Institute Analysis of the Australian Labor Party's Tax and Family Benefit Package

Projects commenced in 2003

• Incentives of the current system for single and married mothers

Projects commenced in 2002

• Working time preferences in couple households
• Effect of family composition and worklessness on the distribution of income and expenditure
• Understanding and improving data quality relating to low income households
• The effect of childcare costs on labour supply
• Effects of education, fertility and divorce on married women's employment: Patterns past, present and future

Projects commenced in 2001

• Work and family directions in the US and Australia
• Analysis of incidence and trends in jobless families in Australia
• Workless Families in Australia
• The Polarisation of Work and Poverty Across Australian Households: An Empirical Study
• Neighbourhood and family effects on employment and employment aspirations