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Labour Market Characteristics of Unpaid Carers

A substantial part of the workforce — about one-eighth — engage in unpaid care for "persons with ill health, a disability, mental illness, an addiction, or…

Issues Paper 03: Economic Wellbeing of Sole-parent Families

This Families Commission report provides a snapshot of the economic situations of all sole-parent families, based on 2006 Census statistics. Sole-parent families are defined as families where there…

Issues Paper 04: Paid Parental Leave

The Families Commission released a research report and recommendations for improving paid parental leave in 2007 (Families Commission, 2007). Events since that time – particularly the…