Janet Taylor

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Overcoming disadvantage: chance and circumstance

Despite Australia's egalitarian traditions, a long-term study of people born in 1990 has found that social and economic disadvantage is often inherited, passed from parents to children

Turning 18: pathways and plans

The longitudinal Life Chances Study has followed some 140 young people from diverse backgrounds since they were infants

Stories of early school leaving: pointers for policy and practice

The stories of eight young people who left school early illustrate their complex lives as they consider employment, training and other facets of their future

Life chances at 16: Life chances study stage 8

This stage of the longitudinal Life Chances Study explores the situations of 125 young Australians (75 girls and 50 boys) from diverse backgrounds, their current engagement with school and work and their future plans at the age of 16

Sweet 16: life chances and school to work transitions

This paper from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference explored differences in school engagement and family life for the 16 year olds who have grown up in low-income families and those in higher income families; the links to the workforce for those who have left school early and those still at school; and the history and current situation of the 16 year olds who have already left school

School engagement and life chances: 15 year olds in transition

This report from stage 7 of the Brotherhood’s longitudinal Life Chances Study, when the young people were aged 15, explores school engagement and transition issues

Experiencing poverty: the voices of low-income Australians

Peter Saunders, Kelly Sutherland and co-authors report on the first stage of a project designed to develop new indicators of disadvantage for Australia in the new millennium

Refugees and regional settlement: balancing priorities

Settling refugees in country towns is not the answer to dwindling regional populations unless support services are improved, according to Janet Taylor and Dayane Stanovic

Refugees and regional settlement: win-win?

The debate about the regional settlement of refugees takes place within a number of important and at times conflicting policy arenas: humanitarian goals and obligations, population strategy and economic development of regional areas

Life chances and social exclusion: eleven years on

The Life Chances Study commenced in 1990 as a longitudinal study of 167 children born in Melbourne that year, to explore a wide range of factors which influence their life chances including family income, health, family relationships, social supports and ethnic background

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The Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access examines the recent East Asia Summit, bilateral alliances in the Asia Pacific, the future of Timor-Leste, women's participation in peace processes and more.

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