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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population's Assessment of the Effectiveness of Public Management: the Practice of Regional Sociological Research

Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2014
The paper presents the results of long-term public opinion surveys on economic, social and political life of the territorial community carried out in the Vologda region.
Vladimir A. Ilin
doaj  

Exploring the link between saving behavior and subjective wellbeing in Indonesia: urban–rural and gender differential estimations

Cogent Economics & Finance
This study explores the impact of saving decisions on subjective well-being (SWB) – measured by self-reported happiness and life satisfaction – among urban and rural residents in Indonesia, with particular attention to gender-based differences.
Tina Sri Purwanti, Wen-Chi Huang, Budi Hartono, Jaisy Aghniarahim Putritamara, Eko Nugroho, Awang Tri Satria, Rizky Dwi Putri   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

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
wiley   +1 more source

Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping landscape in Longshan period’s hierarchical society (3000–2000BCE) of North Loess Plateau: from archaeological predictive model to GIS spatial analysis

Heritage Science
On the North Loess Plateau of China, city civilization, social complexity, and stratification emerged during the Longshan period (3000-2000BCE). Based on Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis and archaeological predictive model, we conducted a ...
Jianxin Cui
doaj   +1 more source

Introducing AI & Innovation

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
Mirko Farina, Xiao Yu, Rongrong Ji, Chen Jin, Vincent Blok, Paolo Ciancarini, Ngcaweni Busani, Witold Pedrycz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

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, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN UNION’S PERIPHERY

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2012
One of the basic features of  the European Union is the existence of a distance between countries – literally, in geographical sense and implicitly – the development gap. The second, especially, is the subject of this deliberation. In the theoretical part of this paper the basic idea of peripherality and the sense of socio-economic development are ...
openaire   +2 more sources