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AGL has re-vamped its Energy for Life Program and announced the roll out of a six-year program following research released today that identifies areas across Melbourne and Sydney most at risk of experiencing energy-related financial hardship. A paper explaining the revitalised program is available here. “AGL has taken major steps over the past twelve months to structure . . . → Read More: AGL announces evidence-based Energy for Life Program This paper was a keynote address at the AVETRA conference held in Canberra in April 2012. Karmel notes that industry is arguably the key stakeholder in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector and discusses six areas of research which raise questions about VET and industry, either in terms of how public training funds are . . . → Read More: VET research for industry – NCVER ABSTRACT In the context of a public safety net focused on limiting dependency and encouraging participation in the labor market, policymakers and researchers are especially interested in individuals who face obstacles to finding and keeping jobs. The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ (HtE) Demonstration and Evaluation Project was a 10-year study that evaluated innovative strategies aimed at . . . → Read More: What strategies work for the hard-to-employ? (US) ABSTRACT If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburdened health care systems. This book is the product of a collaboration among the business, political, academic, and other leaders of society that make . . . → Read More: Policy planning for an ageing population – World Economic Forum ABSTRACT This article argues that the post-war baby boomers led a long generation in which successive cohorts achieved, and came to expect, continuous improvement in living standards. The article proceeds to argue that current cohorts of young people in all Western countries will become the vanguard of a successor generation, distinguished by a different youth life stage . . . → Read More: The end of the long baby-boomer generation ABSTRACT This paper studies the influence of state, workplace, and family support on the working hours of employed mothers and how these different support sources interact. Data taken from the European Social Survey 2004/2005 as well as country-specific information were used to estimate several hierarchical models. We find evidence that the availability of supportive workplace arrangements and . . . → Read More: Social support and working hours of employed mothers in Europe ABSTRACT Mothers’ employment and earnings partly depend on social policies and cultural norms supporting women’s paid and unpaid work. Previous research suggests that work–family policies are deeply shaped by their cultural context. We examine country variation in the associations between motherhood and earnings, in cultural attitudes surrounding women’s employment, and in childcare and parental leave policies. We . . . → Read More: Work–family policies and cultural attitudes – cross-national perspective (EU) It has become clear that teaching skills requires answering “What should students learn in the 21st century?” on a deep and broad basis. Teachers need to have the time and flexibility to develop knowledge, skills, and character, while also considering the meta-layer/fourth dimension that includes learning how to learn, interdisciplinarity, and personalisation. Adapting to 21st century . . . → Read More: What should students learn in the 21st century? – OECD The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, has launched the Place-based Impact Investment in Australia literature review and the accompanying Building Blocks for Action report. Impact investing is an investment approach which intentionally seeks some measure of both social impact and financial return. Internationally, place-based impact investment funds which offer appropriate finance and . . . → Read More: Place-based impact investment in Australia – DEEWR ABSTRACT The idea of a “broken society” is advanced by Conservative politicians in the UK as emblematic of social and moral decay. With many echoes of long-standing claims of societal and moral breakdown, the narrative centres on “irresponsibility” and “disorderly” behaviours in disadvantaged working-class communities and asserts that welfare dependency is the underlying condition which produces “social . . . → Read More: ‘Welfare ghettos’ and the ‘broken society’ (UK) ABSTRACT This article considers the ideology underpinning the 2010 UK Government’s welfare reform agenda in order to foreground what we see as the contradictions of localism and its justification in housing policy through the “Big Society” agenda. The article has three sections. It begins by discussing some of the methodological challenges that arise in interpreting contemporary policy . . . → Read More: Localism, the ‘Big Society’, housing policy, and welfare reform (UK) ABSTRACT Governments continue to face challenges in implementing effective strategies to increase social and economic participation of people with disabilities. In a recent OECD high-level policy forum on Sickness, Disability and Work, the main policy message was the need for a culture of inclusion; with a dual focus on short-term active policy interventions and long-term structural reform. . . . → Read More: Active labour market policies for disabled people ABSTRACT Gender mainstreaming was introduced within the European Union (EU) in the 1990s as a means of addressing the unequal treatment of employed women. Yet its impact on organizational practices in Europe has been limited. This review synthesizes and analyses theoretical and policy literatures on gender mainstreaming within the EU between 1998 and 2011. It highlights ambiguities . . . → Read More: Gender mainstreaming and employment in EU ABSTRACT This paper argues that the drive to build housing and to clear crowded slums has led to the dispersal of population. The building of large subsidised housing estates as replacement housing for former slums has compounded social problems by concentrating low income households in cut-off communities. Low income households in poorer neighbourhoods have far lower levels . . . → Read More: Disadvantaged neighbourhoods and transport deprivation (UK) ABSTRACT In this paper, we seek to highlight the importance of understanding the social impacts and consequences, as well as the distributional effects, of transport decision-making. Based on an extensive review of the contemporary literature, we aim to clarify key concepts and definitions around the notion of social impacts, and to give them an identity distinct from . . . → Read More: Social consequences of transport decision-making (UK) Better rights for casual and contract workers, a much larger investment in Australia’s workforce and an overhaul of our welfare system will be the building blocks of reforms to undo the damage caused by the spread of insecure work. The ACTU Congress today welcomed the report of the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work, Lives on Hold: Unlocking . . . → Read More: Unions pledge to tackle the growing crisis of insecure work in Australia with a national campaign – ACTU The number of people starting apprenticeships and traineeships decreased in the March 2012 quarter. Released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Apprentices and trainees 2012—early trend estimates, March quarter, provides seasonally adjusted data at the national level for apprentice and trainee commencements. The number of trainee commencements slowed to 55 600 in the March 2012 . . . → Read More: Fewer trainees start, apprentices continue to slow – NCVER The US government has released a national plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease, following the signing of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act last year. The plan was developed with input from experts in aging and Alzheimer’s disease issues and calls for a comprehensive, collaborative approach across federal, state, private and non-profit organizations. More than 3,600 people or . . . → Read More: National Alzheimer’s plan released in USA – ADI
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, the number of websites and web users, especially older users, has increased extensively. Despite the rapid growth in the number of websites, a significant number of ergonomic violations still hinder the information search activity performed by web users. As ageing is associated with reduced working memory capacity, inhibition failure, slowing of processing speed . . . → Read More: The effects of ageing and website ergonomic quality on internet information searching – Ageing & Society ABSTRACT The study examines whether social capital affects health of older people more strongly than it affects health of younger individuals. Following Pierre Bourdieu’s concept, social capital has been analysed on a cognitive dimension, distinguishing between institutional and informal social capital. The analysis is based on the data of the Austrian Health Interview Survey 2006–07 with a . . . → Read More: Social capital affects the health of older people more strongly than that of younger people – Ageing & Society FOREWORD Education begins at home. The first simple word a parent speaks to an infant opens the world of language to the child and sets the child on the path of exploration and discovery. When formal schooling begins, many parents believe that their role as educators has ended. But education is a shared responsibility of parents, schools, . . . → Read More: Parental influence on education outcomes – OECD Extract Among all the school payments and defence cuts, last week’s federal budget also quietly committed an additional $5.2 billion to the government’s Closing the Gap program. It’s a vote of faith from the government that the initiative is working. And there’s no doubt Closing the Gap is making inroads into Indigenous disadvantage on a number of fronts. . . . → Read More: Closing the gap, or making it wider? Putting a value on Indigenous jobs – The Conversation ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of individuals living in social housing in the UK. It exploits a dataset that is representative and longitudinal to match people to their very local neighbourhoods. Using this, the paper examines the effect of living in a neighbourhood in which the population is . . . → Read More: The impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of British social renters ABSTRACT In this paper, we consider three U.S. public policies that potentially influence the work decisions of mothers of infants—parental leave laws, exemptions from welfare work requirements, and child care subsidies for low-income families. We estimate the effects of these policies on the timing of work participation after birth, and on a range of outcomes in the . . . → Read More: Public policies, women’s employment after childbearing, and child well-being (US) ABSTRACT The societal effects of the welfare state are a perennial issue in the public debate. Critics accuse the welfare state of having unintended economic and moral consequences rather than producing its intended social goals. Popular perceptions of possible consequences of the welfare state are a crucial component of welfare state legitimacy, but have received hardly any . . . → Read More: Popular perceptions of welfare state consequences in Europe ABSTRACT Material deprivation is high on the political agenda in Europe and part of the agreed benchmarks in the EU social inclusion process. This study analyses the link between social assistance benefit levels and material deprivation in European countries. It is shown that the relationship between assistance and deprivation is negative, indicating that material deprivation is less . . . → Read More: Role of social assistance in counteracting material deprivation in Europe INTRODUCTION Renewable energy has been gaining an increasing foothold in the global energy mix, to the extent that non-hydro renewable energy as a share of global power generation is forecast1 to rise from three per cent in 2009 to 15 per cent by 2035, with much of the increase coming with explicit government support. Proponents will use a . . . → Read More: Policy – the drug of choice for renewable energy – Grattan Institute Hobart, 14 June 2012 This AHURI Housing Research Seminar will present the findings from three new AHURI research projects – The environmental sustainability of Australia’s private rental housing stock by Dr Michelle Gabriel (AHURI Research Centre—University of Tasmania), The problem of social housing stigmatisation and innovations that can minimise its effects (Investigative Panel) by Associate Professor Keith . . . → Read More: Event – Improving housing outcomes for low-income households – AHURI The review confirms that fuel poverty is a serious national problem and shows that it is set to rise rapidly. It affects people with low incomes and energy costs above typical levels. It proposes a new way of measuring the problem, focused both on the number of people affected and the severity of the problem they . . . → Read More: Final report of the Hills Independent Fuel Poverty Review: Getting the measure of fuel poverty (UK) SUMMARY – Extract The Salvation Army is one of the largest national providers of welfare services, providing a network of community and social support services working with and supporting some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people in the Australian community. During April and May 2012, The Salvation Army surveyed 1731 people seeking emergency relief and support . . . → Read More: The economic and social impact of cost of living pressures on people accessing emergency relief – Salvation Army |
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