scholarly journals Women and Superannuation: Work Until You Drop?

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo (Chau) Vu ◽  
James Doughney
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Retirement Benefits ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Significant Barrier ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics

Superannuation is becoming an increasingly important source of retirement income. However, women in Australia face a significant barrier in accumulating superannuation entitlements because of their positions in the paid and unpaid workforce. When in paid work, women occupy lower positions, have more career breaks due to care responsibilities and have more part-time and casual employment. Many women, of course, do not work outside the home, and a smaller proportion of women engage in paid employment than do men. Consequently women have lower incomes, less wealth and less generous retirement benefits. Our analysis of the Survey of Employment Arrangements and Superannuation and other Australian Bureau of Statistics data, together with data published by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, reveals that dramatic policy initiatives will be needed to improve women’s access to retirement resources. Such policies do not apply only to superannuation but must address women’s positions in the paid workforce and their care responsibilities.

scholarly journals Advance 2 Not a pretty picture Psychosocial disability in Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES ATHANASOU
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Psychosocial Disability ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pretty Picture

<a>This paper describes the impact of psychosocial disabilities in Australia on vocational achievements. The report is based on the official statistics on <i>Disability Ageing and Carers</i> by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The major findings in relation to persons with a psychosocial disability are: (a) only 32% are in the labour force; (b) the proportion who are unemployed is 1.7 times that for those with no disability; (c) employment is reduced more than twice for those with some other disability; (d) larger proportions are working part-time than full-time; (e) there is some underlying impact on the types of occupations; (f) the median income is much less ($400 gross per week) than for other disabilities ($575.00 gross per week) or even no disability ($950.00 gross per week)</a><a></a> ; and (g) the workplace is by far the highest source of unfair treatment with 46,500 instances in the previous 12 months. It was concluded that most persons with a psychosocial disability do not participate in the labour market. When they do, they suffer higher levels of unemployment. When they get a job, it is more likely to be part-time. When they are employed substantial numbers face discrimination and restrictions.

scholarly journals Advance 2 Not a pretty picture Psychosocial disability in Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES ATHANASOU
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Psychosocial Disability ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pretty Picture

<a>This paper describes the impact of psychosocial disabilities in Australia on vocational achievements. The report is based on the official statistics on <i>Disability Ageing and Carers</i> by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The major findings in relation to persons with a psychosocial disability are: (a) only 32% are in the labour force; (b) the proportion who are unemployed is 1.7 times that for those with no disability; (c) employment is reduced more than twice for those with some other disability; (d) larger proportions are working part-time than full-time; (e) there is some underlying impact on the types of occupations; (f) the median income is much less ($400 gross per week) than for other disabilities ($575.00 gross per week) or even no disability ($950.00 gross per week)</a><a></a> ; and (g) the workplace is by far the highest source of unfair treatment with 46,500 instances in the previous 12 months. It was concluded that most persons with a psychosocial disability do not participate in the labour market. When they do, they suffer higher levels of unemployment. When they get a job, it is more likely to be part-time. When they are employed substantial numbers face discrimination and restrictions.

scholarly journals A Digital Individual Benefit Statement to Mitigate the Risk of Poverty in Retirement: The Case of Switzerland

Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Catherine Equey Balzli
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Pension Fund ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Retirement Benefits ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Swiss Population ◽  
Part Time

Old-age retirement benefits are a major concern among the Swiss population but estimating one’s revenue after retirement is challenging due to the Swiss social system’s complexity. In Switzerland, as with many other countries, the risk of poverty for retiree people is high, especially for women who often work part-time. The research presented in this paper proposes a methodology to enable the development of a digital platform to provide Swiss citizens the means to verify that their retirement income will allow them to live decently when retired. The aim of the platform will be to allow insured people to plan for retirement in a simplified manner. The methodology used was both qualitative (focus group) and quantitative (surveys). The main results are recommendations for the scope and functionality for a digital platform to be developed. A main conclusion is the need to limit the platform’s scope to old-age pension only (e.g., excluding survivors’ or disability pensions). Moreover, an outcome regarding the functionalities is the proposition of scenarios such as postponed retirement, additional purchases in pension fund, or changes to individual status. The development of the platform is not included in the article.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health — Current Policy Issues

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
Torres Strait Islander Health

This article addresses Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health problems and critically investigates current government policies which are attempting to raise the health standards of these Indigenous people. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, which, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics census in 1986, stood at just over 61,000 or 2.4 per cent of the State's population.

Child care needs of parents in paid work: An interpretation of findings from Australia's Welfare 1993: Services and Assistance

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Graeme Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Formal Services ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
High Level

The extent to which the child care needs of parents in paid employment are adequately met is an important matter. This paper examines the issue using data published in the recent report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's Welfare 1993: Services and Assistance. Data from recent surveys by the Australian Bureau of Statistics are used to supplement the report's findings.While families with both parents or the sole parent in paid employment are the major users of formal child care services many of them continue to experience difficulties in obtaining child care that meets their needs. Many of these families need to arrange their domestic and working lives to care for children within the family or rely on informal support by other family members, friends and neighbours. Many adopt a mix of strategies-formal services, informal support and flexible work arrangements-to meet their child care needs. These families show a high level of unmet demand for formal services; mothers in these families experience difficulties in balancing the competing demands of caring for children and paid employment.

scholarly journals Synthetic Business Microdata

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Hung Chien ◽  
Alan Hepburn Welsh ◽  
John D Moore
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Data ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Australian Bureau ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Information Reduction ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Business Data ◽  
Business Survey ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
Inform Decision Making

Enhancing microdata access is one of the strategic priorities for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in its transformation program. However, balancing the trade-off between enhancing data access and protecting confidentiality is a delicate act. The ABS could use synthetic data to make its business microdata more accessible for researchers to inform decision making while maintaining confidentiality. This study explores the synthetic data approach for the release and analysis of business data. Australian businesses in some industries are characterised by oligopoly or duopoly. This means the existing microdata protection techniques such as information reduction or perturbation may not be as effective as for household microdata. The research focuses on addressing the following questions: Can a synthetic data approach enhance microdata access for the longitudinal business data? What is the utility and protection trade-off using the synthetic data approach? The study compares confidentialised input and output approaches for protecting confidentiality and analysing Australian microdata from business survey or administrative data sources.

Stresses and Successes

Women's Work ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Zoe Young
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Flexible Work Arrangements ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Part Time

This chapter explores the events and outcomes after a year of combining motherhood and professional work using part-time and flexible work arrangements for the 30 women interviewed in this study. None of the women were unequivocal about the benefits or otherwise of using flexible work arrangements as a work–life reconciliation strategy. A near universal experience was that the working pattern the women had embarked upon when they were first interviewed was not the pattern they were working a year later. All but 4 of 30 women had made further adjustments to the time, timing, or location of their paid work. What women identify as the drivers of those further adjustments reveals much about the level of support for flexible work arrangements in important jobs at the pivotal stage in careers when women's progress to the top of large organisations slows down.

How good is half a job? Part-time employment and job quality in the US

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-216
Author(s):  
Kenneth Hudson ◽  
Arne L. Kalleberg
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Retirement Benefits ◽  
Poverty Threshold ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Part

In January 2018, about 17 percent of the workforce in the United States had a part-time job. Part-time employment increased between 1955 and the 1980s as large numbers of women entered the workforce. Since then it has fluctuated in response to rising and falling unemployment. The majority of part-time workers are between 24 and 60 and about two-thirds are women, who often divide their time between work and family. Like other forms of nonstandard work, part-time workers are more likely to have bad jobs, and they are more apt to live in families that are poor, even when controlling for a multitude of labor related variables. Although some part-time jobs offer health and retirement benefits and wages above the poverty threshold, most do not. Only a small share of part-time jobs-between 16 and 17 percent-are located in the primary labor market. When compared to whites, we find that blacks, Hispanic non-citizens, and persons of mixed-race descent are more likely to work part-time. Part-time workers in these groups are also more likely to have jobs in the secondary labor market. Finally, we find that as percentage of part-time workers in occupations increases, the negative effect on job quality associated with the percentage of women in an occupation is greatly reduced or disappear

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