Using data in which both partners report about household finances to, Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Xiaodong Gong and Danielle Venn demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. This implies that standard surveys which collect information about the household’s financial position from a representative individual...

Aydogan Ulker examines the relationship between non-standard job schedules and workers’ physical and mental health. His overall results generally suggest a negative relationship between non-standard work schedules and better health for both males and females. Regarding the statistical significance and magnitudes of the effects, however, we observe apparent differences between males and females. Among females...

Anu Rammohan and Stephen Whelan examine the implications of child care costs for maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Their results indicate that child care costs have a statistically insignificant effect on the decision to work either full time or part time. Moreover, the reported elasticities of part-time and full-time work...

Andrew Leigh finds that, on average, 63 per cent of trade union members vote for the Australian Labor Party. Despite the fact that union membership declined from around one-half of the workforce in the early-1980s to one-quarter of the workforce in the early-2000s, unionists have not become more pro-Labor. He finds that male unionists were...

Peng Yu analyses the results of a study of the effect of the education on people’s fertility expectation in Australia, using the first wave of the HILDA Survey conducted in 2001.