by Matthew Gray, Lixia Qu, David de Vaus and Christine Millward
Australian Institute of Family Studies, May 2002, 26p, ISBN 0 642 39493 8. ISSN 1446-9863 (Print); ISSN 1446-9871 (Online)
While the lower rates of employment of lone mothers as compared with couple mothers has been well documented, the reasons for the employment gap are less well understood. This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Census to analyse the factors which explain the employment gap.
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