Working from home is bringing more of us into the workforce and better matching us to jobs. It shouldn’t be seen as a favour to us, but as a favour to the economy.
Should people aged 55 and over get a targeted boost to their JobSeeker payments? Our research suggests the need among young Australians may well be greater.
Rates of full-time employment and pay relative to other workers have fallen for the latest generation of new workers. Yet the HILDA Survey shows their reported job satisfaction has risen.
A report uses an international benchmark of no more than 7% of disposable income spent on childcare to determine affordability. It finds childcare is unaffordable for 386,000 Australian families.
Australians report high levels of life satisfaction but there are gaps — Indigenous Australians, immigrants and the unemployed fare worse. And COVID-19 won’t have helped.
Four decades on, and commencing retirement, Australians who entered the labour market during the 1970s recession are less happy than those born earlier or later.
Women are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety as men.
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Around 20% of young Australian women had a diagnosis of depression or anxiety in 2017 compared with 12.8% in 2009. But the proportion of people reporting significant symptoms has remained stable.
More than 60% of Victorian young adults live with their parents, followed by 56% in New South Wales and about 53% in the other four states. In Queensland, the proportion of young adults living at home rose from 31% in 2001 to 52% in 2017.
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In 2017, 56% of men aged 18 to 29 lived with one or both parents, up from 47% in 2001. And over the same period, the proportion of women aged 18 to 29 living with their parents rose from 36% to 54%.
Inter-ethnic couples not only connect two individuals, but entire families and communities of different ethnic backgrounds.
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The science of sleep and the economics of sleeplessness
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Only about one quarter Australians report getting eight or more hours of sleep. And in pre-industrial times, it was seen as normal to wake for a few hours in the middle of the night and chat or work.
Use our drag-and-drop interactive to find out how incomes, financial wellbeing, and housing stress has changed since 2001 for various ‘family types’, including singles or couples without children.