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Vocational Qualifications, Employment Status and Income: 2006 Census Analysis. Technical Paper
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Daly, Anne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
Two features of the labour market for vocationally qualified workers are explored in this technical paper: the likelihood of self-employment versus wage employment and the determinants of income. The analysis showed that demographic, occupational and local labour market characteristics all influence the likelihood of self-employment. Self-employed…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Employment Level, Income, Qualifications
Determinants of Job Separation and Occupational Mobility in Australia. Working Paper No. 66
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Shah, Chandra – Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 2009
In the year to February 2002, one in every five of the 9.8 million people who worked in Australia experienced at least one job separation. This paper looks at the determinants of job separation within a stayer/mover framework using individual-level data for Australia. Conditional on job separation the paper also investigates the determinants of…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Occupational Mobility, Unemployment, Gender Differences
Pets and Human Health in Germany and Australia: National Longitudinal Results
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Headey, Bruce; Grabka, Markus M. – Social Indicators Research, 2007
The German and Australian "longitudinal" surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Academic Achievement, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries
An Exploration of National Calls to Lifeline Australia: Social Support or Urgent Suicide Intervention?
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Watson, Robert J.; Mcdonald, John; Pearce, Dora C. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2006
Lifeline Australia Inc. provides a free 24-hour telephone counselling and referral service to all Australians. The trained telephone counsellors of the service record information on many of their calls in Lifeline's Client Service Management Information System (CSMIS). This paper presents a descriptive summary of a national CSMIS data set, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Referral, Management Information Systems
Measuring Wellbeing in Developing Countries: The Case of Algeria
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Tiliouine, Habib; Cummins, Robert A.; Davern, Melanie – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The International Wellbeing Index (IWI) has been developed as a complementary measure to already well-known economic measures, and as a tool for cross-cultural comparisons. It comprises two subscales: the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) and the National Wellbeing Index (NWI). The aims of this paper are two-fold. Firstly, to test the psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marital Status, Developed Nations, Females
Marriage Counselling in Australia: An Evaluation.
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Wolcott, Ilene; Glezer, Helen – 1989
A study was conducted of the effectiveness of marriage counseling with respect to marital status and the long-term stability of relationships. Data were gathered from clients of approved Australian marriage counseling agencies (n=540) who took a pre-counseling survey during a 4-week period in October-November 1987 and a post-counseling survey 8…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Family Problems, Foreign Countries