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• Research note: what happened to time use during the global financial crisis?

  Author:Duncan IronmongerFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20123,121 words Report 1490LThis research note explores the trade-offs between various categories of time use during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007 to 2009, using continuous time use data for the United States adult population....

• Estimating the impact of the global financial crisis on poverty and deprivation

  Authors:Peter Saunders and Melissa WongFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20127,769 words Report 1640LAlthough the Australian economy has avoided going into recession since the onset of the global financial crisis, relatively little is known about the social impact of the crisis. Survey and anecdotal evidence presented...

• How parents' income, time and job quality affect children's health and development

  Authors:Jan M. Nicholson, Lyndall Strazdins, Judith E. Brown, and Michael BittmanFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20128,242 words Report 1510LThe advent of the Global Financial Crisis reminds us that modern epidemiological research has consistently demonstrated links between the socio-economic circumstances of families and children's health and development....

• Income support for Australian carers since 1983: social justice, social investment and the cloak of gender neutrality

  Authors:Yvette Maker and Dina BowmanFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20129,081 words Report 1540LIncome support for corers has been available in Australia since the early 1980s. In contrast to most other forms of income support, eligibility for Carer Payment has been progressively expanded in recent years, and...

• Just deserts? 'Privatisation' and the history of deservingness in Australia's retirement incomes system

  Author:Myra HamiltonFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20129,247 words Report 1530LOver the last few decades, changes in Australia's retirement incomes policy, including the introduction of compulsory superannuation, have seen governments encourage individuals to provide for their own old age from...

• Introduction to the themed section: children of the recession--the social consequences of an economic downturn

  Authors:Michael Bittman and Bruce BradburyFrom:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20122,012 words Article 1420LMore than 50 years ago C. Wright Mills described sociology, the archetypical social science, as the study of where history meets biography (1959: 4-7). Most of us have heard our parents or grandparents talk about the...