AIFS Research - Research projects
Negotiating the Life Course
- Duration: 2006-11
- Funding source(s): Appropriation
- Partner organisations(s): Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute; School of Social Science, University of Queensland
- Related themes: Economic wellbeing of families*, Families and work**, Social inclusion*, Family transitions and family law**
- Related project(s): Labour Market and Financial Consequences of Divorce for Families; Labour Market Issues for Families
- ** Indicates theme(s) to which the project is most relevant
* Indicates theme(s) to which the project has some relevance
Negotiating the Life Course is a longitudinal survey that tracks the changing life courses and decision-making processes of Australian men and women as families and society move from male breadwinner orientation towards higher levels of gender equity.
AIFS contributes to the study through the involvement of a senior research staff member as Partner Investigator to the project.
AIFS has also analysed of the Negotiating the Life Course data to examining women’s labour market participation in terms of life cycle stage across different birth cohorts.
Publications
- Baxter, J. (2006, July). Men’s and women’s patterns of employment over a lifetime. Contribution to the newsletter for NLC participants.
Presentations
- Baxter, J. (2008, 29–30 September). Negotiating work and family across the life course: A comparison of birth cohorts. The Decade of the Life Course conference, Canberra.