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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…

The right of people with disabilities to be parents

Social Work Now, Issue 46, pages 25-28. Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to which New Zealand became a signatory…

Auckland Region Housing Market Assessment

This report assesses current and future housing demand, need and supply (2006 to 2026) in the Auckland region, its distribution, composition and also its implications. This…