http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:58 One way to address problems of labour shortages caused by an ageing labour force would be to increase female labour force participation. This article looks at government work and family policies, family friendly workplace arrangements, bargaining agreements, and legislative inaction in supporting work and family. 2013-03-18T06:09:28.950Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10712 This study examines the impact of female labour force attachment on health in Australia, where health care is socially provided. Longitudinal panel data from Women’s Health Australia is used in a metric analysis to capture the impact of labour market attachment on the physical component health score of relatively young and older female workers. After controlling for the healthy worker effect – wherein firms hire and retain the healthiest workers – and other health-related changes in socio-economic status, the analysis suggests that even a moderate attachment to the paid labour force has benevolent effects on health relative to no or marginal attachment. Given the existing social structure in Australia, remunerative work generally appears to enhance the health of young women and arrest the decline of health for older female workers. 2012-05-01T04:04:14.964Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:303 Sole mothers have lower paid work participation rates than partnered mothers, lower superannuation savings and are less likely to own their own home. This article uses data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health to examine the economic well being of sole mothers and to investigate the contribution of paid work participation to economic well being. 2012-03-01T04:30:05.978Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:13 This article addresses the issue of part-time work and job quality in an exploratory fashion. It highlights the construction and measurement of part-time work and its broad features within the Australian context. It then explores the important question of the nature of job quality, and specifically the quality of part-time jobs. It argues that the gap separating part-time from full-time jobs can constitute the starting point for addressing part-time job quality. 2012-02-23T00:27:34.202Z ]]>