Roger Wilkins

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Social exclusion monitor bulletin

In order to monitor social progress and the effectiveness of government policies, this paper argues that it is essential that we have a rigorous measure of the number of people experiencing exclusion

Families, incomes and Jobs, volume 5

The HILDA Survey investigates new methods of measuring change and social trends

Does part-time employment help or hinder lone mothers' movements into full-time employment?

This study investigates the growth in lone parent families in Australia and policies that can enable lone parents to participate in employment

Estimates of poverty and social exclusion in Australia: a multidimensional approach

This paper compares poverty against measures of social exclusion using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey

A multidimensional approach to investigation of living standards of the low-paid: income, wealth, financial stress and consumption

This research explores the capacity of the income 'safety net' to provide adequate living standards for low paid workers

Election 2007: federal-state relations

The roles and responsibilities of different levels of government in Australia are becoming increasingly unclear, argues Roger Wilkins

Disability support pension recipients: who gets off (and stays off) payments?

There is a close correspondence between disability benefit receipt and labour market outcomes according to this study of centrelink records

Poverty lines: Australia

Many Australians receiving government welfare benefits are still living below the poverty line, according to the latest issue of Poverty Lines: Australia conducted by Roger Wilkins

The effects of smoking ban regulations on individual smoking rates

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Roger Wilkins describe the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia, using
HILDA data to track individuals’ smoking behaviour over the period 2001 to 2003, during which time smoking ban initiatives in Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory came into effect

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Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access released
13 January 2012

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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