Marriage breakdown in Australia: social correlates, gender and initiator status

This paper aims to obtain a better understanding of marriage breakdown in the Australian context, with a particular focus on gender differences in the social correlates of marriage breakdown. It analyses retrospective data from all persons who were currently or had been previously married at Wave 1 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey (2001). The findings are grouped into three main themes: • Social characteristics are important for understanding marriage breakdown. • Women are more likely to initiate separation than men. • Gender differences in the decision to separate or remain married

Marriage and money: Variations across the earnings distribution

This paper uses Australian data from the Negotiating the Life Course Project 1997 to investigate the impact of marriage on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with married men earning around $5,7000 per annum more than their unmarried counterparts, after adjusting for human capital, job and family characteristics. Overall, there are very few differences in the association between marriage and earnings for men and women across the wage distribution. Although, importantly, we find that the returns to marriage tend to be smaller and non-significant for men in the middle of the distribution

Сучасний стан нормативно-правового забезпечення формування облікової політики

У статті проаналізовано стан розвитку нормативно-правової бази формування облікової політики підприємства. Констатовано, що нормативно-правові акти, які визначають правові засади формування облікової політики в Україні, вимагають взаємоузгодження й урегулювання, а також мають відповідати міжнародним стандартам обліку. Запропоновані напрямки подальшого вдосконалення законодавчого регулювання облікової політики в Україні.The article analyzes the state of the regulatory framework of formationac counting policies of the enterprise. Suggested areas for further improvement of legal regulation of accounting policy in Ukraine

Gender, justice and domestic work: life course transitions and perceptions of fairness

This paper investigates changes in perceptions of housework fairness as men and women make the transition from cohabitation to marriage and experience the birth of a child. Using four waves of data from the Negotiating the Life Course project in Australia, we assess how marriage and parenthood alter perceptions of housework fairness. Consistent with previous research we find that the majority of men and women report that the division of labour at home is fair, despite women spending twice as much time on housework as men. Our results show no changes in perceptions of fairness in relation to marital transitions and only weak evidence of changes in relation to parenthood transitions. We conclude that perceptions of housework fairness are not based on an equal sharing of tasks, but are better understood in terms of distributive justice

I Incorporate Nouns of Various Structural Positions and Thematic Roles, Therefore I Am (The Verb)

The aim of this article is to present an overview of noun-incorporating verbs in Romanian, and to test whether incorporation applies not only to Themes and complements, but to nouns bearing a variety of theta-roles and occupying various structural positions, including the specifier position. In our attempt to test this, we will look at examples with noun- incorporating verbs from English and Romanian, showing that although the data supports the idea that a variety of theta-roles can get incorporated, it does not seem to equally support the idea that nouns occupying any structural position can be incorporated

Reciprocal relationships between time pressure and mental or physical health in Australian mothers of preschool aged children

The associations between time pressure and health are typically conceptualised and examined as unidirectional. This study examined the reciprocal relationships between time pressure and mental and physical health amongst working mothers of preschool children; a high-risk group for feeling time pressured. Using 5 waves of a panel study of Australian mothers when their children were aged 0–4 (n = 3878) and cross-lagged structural equation models, we find strong significant negative reciprocal associations between time pressure and mental and physical health, although these reciprocal associations were stronger and more consistent over time for mental health. Our results indicate that physical health takes a couple of years to deteriorate to a point where the reciprocal effects with time pressure become apparent, but for mental health the reciprocal effects are immediate, present at all time points and consistently strong. Findings suggest there are significant reciprocal health consequences of the time pressure experienced by working mothers and government policy encouraging mothers back into the workforce without adequate supports may be harmful for health

Paid parental leave evaluation: Phase 1

From 1 January 2011, Australian families in which a mother was in the paid workforce before the birth or adoption of a baby may be eligible for a new Australian Government-funded Paid Parental Leave (PPL)1 scheme. The scheme provides eligible parents with up to 18 weeks of Parental Leave Pay (PLP), paid at the National Minimum Wage, following the birth of a child. The PPL scheme brings Australia into line with all other OECD countries, except the United States, in having a national scheme for paid leave available to mothers following childbirth. [Executive summary extract

Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-political Context

We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife's employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife's employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In Finland, Norway, and Sweden, wives' employment predicts a significantly lower risk of divorce when compared with wives who are out of the labor force. The results indicate that greater policy support for equality reduces and may even reverse the relative divorce risk associated with a wife's employment.This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Social Policy following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version "Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in Its Socio-political Context / Lynn Prince Cooke, Jani Erola, Marie Evertsson, Michael Gähler, Juho Härkönen, Belinda Hewitt, Marika Jalovaara, Man-Yee Kan, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Letizia Mencarini, Jean-Francois Mignot, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anne-Rigt Poortman, Christian Schmitt, Heike Trappe. In: Social Politics 20 (2013), 4, pp. 482-509" is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxt01

Millennium Mums Report, waves 1-5

This report presents key findings from Enhancing Mothers’ Workforce Engagement in the Preschool Years, an Australian Research Council Linkage project in partnership with the Department of Social Services, commonly referred to as the Millennium Mums (MM) project. The aims of the project were to examine women’s expectations of employment and their experiences of returning to employment following the birth of a baby. More broadly, the project provided an opportunity to investigate a range of related issues including child care, father’s leave taking arrangements, gender divisions of labour within the household and the health and wellbeing of mothers and children. All of these issues are of interest to those concerned with women’s employment transitions and all are intricately bound up with mother’s expectations and experiences of combining employment with the care of a young child or children