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Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Hours Worked by Primary Carers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary caregivers constitute a major unpaid workforce in Australia. The aim of this study was to determine the sociodemographic factors that are associated with carer workloads. Multinomial logistic regression modelling was applied to the nation‐wide Australian Government survey.
Andrew J. Hamilton
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [PDF]

In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy continues to grow.
Zhang, Linxiu, Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo   +2 more
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Examining multidimensional health poverty and determining factors among rural women of childbearing age in ningxia, china

BMC Public Health
Background The multidimensional health poverty afflicting rural women of reproductive age bears profound implications for the sustainable development of families, societies, and healthy villages.
Kexin Chen, Qi Hu, Ning Xu, Ximin Ma, Jiahui He, Wenlong Wang, Jiancai Du, Jiangwei Qiu, Yongxin Xie, Hui Qiao   +9 more
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Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart, Kate Churruca, Maree Saba, Janet C Long, Peter D. Hibbert, Amy Nguyen, Viviana Wuthrich, Bronwyn Newman, Leonard C. Gray, Hilda Bø Lyng, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise A Ellis   +11 more
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Is There a Nexus between Poverty and Environment in Rural India? [PDF]

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between rural poverty and environmental change using district-level data from South, Central and West India.
Bhattacharya, Haimanti, Innes, Robert
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Collective influence of household and community capitals on agricultural employment as a measure of rural poverty in the Mahanadi Delta, India. [PDF]

Ambio, 2020
Berchoux T, Watmough GR, Amoako Johnson F, Hutton CW, Atkinson PM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

The Pathways out of Poverty in Rural Indonesia: an empirical assessment [PDF]

Since most poor live in rural areas, primarily engaged in low productivity farm activity, the pathway out of poverty must be strongly connected to productivity increases, whether they are realised in farming, rural non-farm enterprises or via urban ...
McCulloch, Neil, Timmer, Peter, Weisbrod, Julian   +2 more
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A National Survey of Informal Supporters' Experiences and Views of Behaviour Support Practitioners in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines informal supporters' experiences and views of NDIS behaviour support practitioners, including engagement, information needed to support selection, and perceptions of practitioners' knowledge, skill, and practice. It reports data from a cross‐sectional online survey of 123 informal support providers of participants receiving
Alinka Fisher, David P. Nicoll, Irene Belperio, Maverick Clissold, Aiden Osborne, Russ Fox, Erin Leif, Keith McVilly   +7 more
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The Causes of Chronic and Transient Poverty and Their Implications for Poverty Reduction Policy in Rural China [PDF]

The study focuses on two components of total poverty: chronic and transient poverty, and investigates their relative importance in total observed poverty, as well as the determinants of each components.
Ximing Yue, Shi Li, Pingping Wang
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