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‘I Don't Babysit’: Stay‐at‐Home Dads' Perspectives and Experiences Within Australian Society
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Stay‐at‐home‐dads are an emerging group in Australia, impacted by societal assumptions and expectations. However, there is a scarcity of research on the perspectives and experiences of fathers assuming stay‐at‐home dad roles within Australian society.
Elyse Manie +3 more
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Benchmarking Canada’s Economic Performance [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2006 While Canada's economic record over the past decade or so is enviable, GDP per capita remains distinctly below US levels, reflecting a sizeable productivity gap.
Jean-Philippe Cotis
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EPJ Web of Conferences, 2016 New processing capabilities are under development at the NEA Data Bank (DB) that aim to provide enlarged and enhanced nuclear data services to member countries in the framework of processing, verification and benchmarking of evaluated nuclear data ...
Díez C.J. +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Comment on “Estimating Capital Input for Measuring Business Sector Multifactor Productivity Growth in Canada” [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2012 This article shows that the large difference of 0.8 per cent percentage points per year between top-down estimates of capital input growth obtained by Diewert and Yu and the bottom-up estimates produced by Statistics Canada for the Canadian business ...
Paul Schreyer
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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Measuring the Size of the Public Sector: A Broad View of Social Expenditure across Countries
Austrian Journal of Statistics, 2016 Most analyses of public budgets – of which social spending is an important element - are based on gross (before tax) public expenditure data. However, a narrow focus on such information can be terribly misleading as it ignores that governments sometimes ...
Willem Adema
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agribusiness: From Automation to Augmentation in a Global Context
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Alexis H. Villacis
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