This final report of the evaluation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme trial sites reports on key themes and outcomes related to disability services and supports. It concludes that the Scheme has been designed on sound fundamentals and is delivering the desired outcomes, with some qualifications.

The norms of men as breadwinners and women as carers face a different reality, with large and ongoing consequences for employment arrangements, family formation and the raising of children. Abstract Traditional gender roles are being disturbed by the increasing earnings of women relative to men. We document the rise in female breadwinning over the last...

This paper provides the results of econometric examination of the causes of labour market outcome for immigrants to Australia. Because labour market success is measured on a continuous scale it is possible to confirm the importance of a number of immigrant attributes in explaining labour outcomes, but it is also possible to show that some...

This paper looks at how the mobile phone may shape the boundaries between the public (work) and private (home) domains, and on how these boundaries are negotiated or navigated. Positive and negative impacts of the mobile phone appear to be dependant on occupation, economic and market forces, contextual factors associated with bureaucratic structures, and the...

Australia’s minerals industry will need to find an extra 70,000 workers over the next decade to meet its demand for labour, according to a new report from the Minerals Industry National Skills Shortage Strategy (NSSS) Working Party. Buoyed by sustained global economic growth, employment in the minerals sector is projected to increase by 76% over...