Recently added articles from Australian Journal of Social Issues:
Australian Journal of Social Issues: special issue devoted to selected papers from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference.
Dec 22, 2008; Saunders, Peter ... The papers in this Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Social Issues were originally presented at the 10th Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC), held at the University of New South Wales in July 2007. The theme of the conference was Social Policy Through the Life Course: ...
Towards new indicators of disadvantage: deprivation and social exclusion in Australia.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; Saunders, Peter ... 1. Introduction * Studies of Australian poverty have concentrated on comparing people's incomes (adjusted to allow for differences in family needs) with poverty lines in order to discover how many people are poor (the poverty rate), who is affected by it (the structure of ...
Mothers' work-to-family strain in single and couple parent families: the role of job characteristics and supports.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; Baxter, Jennifer ... There is considerable evidence that for parents, aspects of work 'spill over' into family life, sometimes in a positive way (work-family gains) and other times in a negative way (work-family strains). This analysis focuses on some negative aspects of these work-to-family spillover effects ...
Radical change or more of the same? Public attitudes towards social citizenship in New Zealand since neoliberal reform.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; Humpage, Louise ... Introduction Neoliberal reforms are often assumed to have significantly affected public opinion towards the social rights of citizenship, as reflected in attitudes towards economic protectionism and the welfare state. This is because the transformation of Keynesian-welfarist ...
What is the (net) cost to government of homelessness programs?(1)(Author abstract)
Dec 22, 2008; Zaretzky, Kaylene ... 1. Introduction The net cost of providing support to clients of a social program is the gross cost net of any savings achieved elsewhere resulting from program participation. (2) Savings, or cost offsets, occur when social programs lower outlays in non-program related areas ...
Feeling motivated yet? Long-term unemployed people's perspectives on the implementation of workfare in Australia.(Author abstract)
Dec 22, 2008; Marston, Greg ... Introduction A common assumption of workfare programs is that many of the long term unemployed exhibit deficits in motivation to engage proactively in the search for paid work (Wanberg, Kanfer and Rotundo, 1999; Hawksworth, 1992). Such assumptions are based on the proposition ...
Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness: the Mental Health Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI).
Dec 22, 2008; Muir, K. ... Introduction With high hospitalisation rates and widespread social exclusion, mental illness is a profound health and social need that requires an integrated policy approach (Shepherd 2007). In the past, mental health models of support for people with acute mental illness have ...
Keeping Australia's older workers in the labour force. A policy perspective.(1)(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; Walter, Maggie ... Introduction As in other western industrialised countries the proportion of older Australians is rising. While structural ageing is not yet as pronounced as it is in Europe, this changing demographic profile has significant labour market implications. Population projections ...
Back at the crossroads: the slippery fish of Australian retirement income policy.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; Borowski, Allan ... Introduction To obviate the financial losses that would otherwise accompany leaving work in old age, most countries have developed retirement income systems. These systems employ a limited range of governmental, quasi-governmental and private mechanisms which, through ...