M Wooden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 57270 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Wooden |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Wooden |
| FIRMA | WOODEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2236-4166 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 302 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Temporary Employment and First Births
In many countries, temporary work (including fixed-term and casual employment contracts) is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates several mediating pathways (wages, financial satisfaction, short tenure, and subjective job insecurity) through which temporary work influences the transition to first birth in two contrasting contexts: Australia and Germ…
Working from Home, Covid-19, and Job Satisfaction
This article examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models of job satisfaction are estimated. Changes in the share of total weekly work hours usually worked from home are not found to have any significant associ…
Working from home and bi-directional work-family conflict
ObjectiveThis study investigates the effects of working from home (WFH) on both work-to-family conflict (WTFC) and family-to-work conflict (FTWC) among parents, and whether family demands and the COVID-19 pandemic moderate these effects.BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic saw a marked increase in the incidence of WFH in many countries, which many argue has been beneficial for families. Convincing evidence in support of this hypothesis, however, is sc…
Does temporary employment increase length of commuting? Longitudinal evidence from Australia and Germany
On average, temporary jobs are far less stable than permanent jobs. This higher instability could potentially lower workers’ incentives to relocate towards the workplace, thereby resulting in longer commutes. However, surprisingly few studies have investigated the link between temporary employment and commuting length. Building on the notion that individuals strive to optimize their utility when deciding where to work and live, we develop and tes…
Baby Bump or Baby Slump? Covid-19, Lockdowns, and their Effects on Births in Australia
This study examines changes in birth rates in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic and the extent to which such changes were influenced by lockdowns. We use natality data at State and small regional area levels spanning the period from 2011 to 2022. In our empirical approach, we first take advantage of a unique quasi-experimental setting that arose in Victoria, Australia's second most populous State, during the first year of the pandemic. Victo…
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility
Many studies have reported evidence of negative associations between fixed-term contract employment and fertility. With few exceptions, these studies assume that employment status is exogenous and thus results are likely biased. Furthermore, previous research has mostly not considered whether the effects of employment status on fertility might vary with other worker characteristics. We draw on nineteen years of data from the Household, Income and…
Quantifying the human impact of Melbourne's 111-day hard lockdown experiment on the adult population
Lockdown was used worldwide to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and was the cornerstone non-pharmaceutical intervention of zero-COVID strategies. Many previous impact evaluations of lockdowns are unreliable because lockdowns co-occurred with severe coronavirus disease related health and financial insecurities. This was not the case in Melbourne's 111-day lockdown, which left other Australian jurisdictions una…
Working from Home and Work-Family Conflict
Longitudinal evidence on whether, and under what conditions, working from home is good or bad for family life is largely absent. Using 15 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, this study investigates the association between working from home and work-family conflict among parents. Fixed-effects structural equation models reveal that more hours worked at home are associated with less work-family conflict…
W eekend work and work–family conflict
Objective This article investigates whether weekend work is associated with higher levels of work–family conflict (WFC) among parents, and whether resources like schedule control or presence of a partner mitigate this effect. Background The 24/7 economy requires many workers to work on weekends. Nevertheless, research on the impact of weekend work on families, and on WFC in particular, is underdeveloped, with previous studies relying on cross‐sec…
Jobless parents, unhealthy children? How past exposure to parental joblessness influences children's future health
The results suggest that it is not parental job loss per se that matters, but parents not being able to quickly find alternative employment. It is only children in families where joblessness is protracted and long-lasting who are at serious risk of long-term health problems. In sum, our results imply that the parental outcome that is most important for children's later health, and especially their mental health, is continuous paid employment. Suc…
The impact of lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic on fertility intentions
The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the Australian Labor Market
We examine whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the associated policy responses have aggravated gender inequality in the Australian labor market. Using quarterly data from the Australian Labour Force Survey between November 2019 and November 2021, we compare labor force outcomes before and during the outbreak. Our findings indicate that while women fared worse than men in the first few months of the pandemic, labor market recovery …
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (Hilda) Survey
This paper provides a brief summary of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative household panel survey. It describes the survey’s key design features, provides an overview of its content, and reports on response rates and sample sizes. It also highlights a few examples of research utilising the data, discusses two challenges currently facing the study, and provides details on how to access…
Recurring pain, mental health problems and sick leave in Australia
A substantial proportion of Australians report recurring pain and mental health problems, but their separate and joint contributions to sick leave use has not been examined. This study examines the interaction of pain and mental health problems with sick leave usage and the extent to which unobservable time-invariant factors contribute to these conditions and the propensity to take sick leave. Longitudinal data on self-reported paid sick leave da…
Trends in the Prevalence of Psychological Distress Over Time
Background: While there is discussion of increasing rates of mental disorders, epidemiological research finds little evidence of change over time. This research generally compares cross-sectional surveys conducted at different times. Declining response rates to representative surveys may mask increases in mental disorders and psychological distress. Methods: Analysis of data from two large nationally representative surveys: repeated cross-section…
The employment consequences of growing up in a dual-parent jobless household
Temporary Employment Contracts and Household Income
Why Parental Unemployment Matters for Children's Educational Attainment
This study examines the effect of parents' unemployment on their children's subsequent educational attainment. Its theoretical significance lies on its focus to test the mediating role of parents' changing work ethics during spells of unemployment. Integrating multiple survey and administrative data sources, our estimates are based on a sample of Dutch children (n = 812) who were exposed to their parents' unemployment during the previous economic…
Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways
The debate over whether contingent (and typically more precarious) employment acts as a bridge to permanent employment, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run pathways. This approach cannot accurately identify indirect pathways from contingent to permanent employment or ‘trap’ pathways involving short spells in other states. It also fails to distinguish between those experiencing contingent employment as a ‘blip’ …
Parental joblessness and the moderating role of a university degree on the school-to-work transition in Australia and the United States
Sexual identity, same-same relationships, and health dynamics
Casual employment and long-term wage outcomes
Temporary and other forms of non-standard employment are an important feature of modern labour markets. Yet, relatively little is known about how much and under what circumstances such employment arrangements impact on long-term wage outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey spanning the period 2001 to 2014, we examine how employment status earlier in a working career is associate…
What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia
Long working hours and physical activity
BACKGROUND: It is widely believed that persons employed in jobs demanding long working hours are at greater risk of physical inactivity than other workers, primarily because they have less leisure time available to undertake physical activity. The aim of this study was to test this hypothesis using prospective data obtained from a nationally representative sample of employed persons. METHODS: Longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labou…
Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods
Money Does not Buy Happiness
Working from Home and Work-Family Conflict
Longitudinal evidence on whether, and under what conditions, working from home is good or bad for family life is largely absent. Using 15 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, this study investigates the association between working from home and work-family conflict among parents. Fixed-effects structural equation models reveal that more hours worked at home are associated with less work-family conflict…
Female breadwinner families
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesize, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the …
Did Australia’s Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births
Panel Conditioning and Subjective Well-being
Do Explanations of Absenteeism Differ for Men and Women
Despite the consistent finding in the absence literature that women tend to be absent more often than men, little attention has been paid to whether the process of absence differs by sex. This issue is examined using data collected from 1401 Australian employees from 61 different workplaces. Hypotheses suggest that the predictive ability of job satisfaction, age, commuting time, family responsibilities, stressful life events and shift work on abs…
The Determinants of Labor Absence
The authors analyze causes of absence from work using data from a survey distributed in 1988 to workers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The results indicate that workgroup cohesion (the degree to which employees work together closely and harmoniously) was associated with low levels of absence if job satisfaction was high, but with high levels of absence if job satisfaction was low. Some employee characteristics associate…
Casual employment and long-term wage outcomes
Temporary and other forms of non-standard employment are an important feature of modern labour markets. Yet, relatively little is known about how much and under what circumstances such employment arrangements impact on long-term wage outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey spanning the period 2001 to 2014, we examine how employment status earlier in a working career is associate…
Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways
The debate over whether contingent (and typically more precarious) employment acts as a bridge to permanent employment, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run pathways. This approach cannot accurately identify indirect pathways from contingent to permanent employment or ‘trap’ pathways involving short spells in other states. It also fails to distinguish between those experiencing contingent employment as a ‘blip’ …
Who Wants and Gets Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Using panel data for 2001-2005 from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the authors examine workers' desires for, and achievement of, work hour flexibility. They estimate a dynamic model that controls for preferences in previous years and tests for the effects of life events on both desired employment and desired work hours. Many life events, such as motherhood and retirement, are found to have predictable effec…
Why Parental Unemployment Matters for Children's Educational Attainment
This study examines the effect of parents' unemployment on their children's subsequent educational attainment. Its theoretical significance lies on its focus to test the mediating role of parents' changing work ethics during spells of unemployment. Integrating multiple survey and administrative data sources, our estimates are based on a sample of Dutch children (n = 812) who were exposed to their parents' unemployment during the previous economic…
The effects of household joblessness on mental health
Usual and Preferred Working Hours in Couple Households
Data from a representative survey of adult Australians are analysed for usual and preferred paid working time across couple types. We discover a time divide – many individuals working short hours desire longer hours of paid employment, while many individuals working long hours prefer shorter hours. The latter group is larger, with the average employee desiring fewer hours. For dual-earner couples with children, men average approximately 20 hours …
The Experience of Refugees in the Australian Labor Market
This article applies sophisticated econometric techniques on a representative sample of Australian migrants who arrived as adults to examine the factors associated with success in securing employment and, in particular, to test how well the recent influx of refugees have done. After controlling for a number of other factors relevant to labor market status such as age, gender, education and premigration employment history, it is found that among n…
The Experience of Refugees in the Australian Labor Market
Temporary Employment Contracts and Household Income
The employment consequences of growing up in a dual-parent jobless household
Parental joblessness and the moderating role of a university degree on the school-to-work transition in Australia and the United States
Understanding lifetime homeless duration
The variation in the amount of time people remain homeless has important policy implications with respect to reducing long‐term homelessness and designing more effective early intervention approaches. This paper examines the factors that influence lifetime homeless duration in Australia using data from the first wave of Journeys Home, a new national survey of individuals exposed to high levels of housing insecurity that employs more rigorous samp…
Household wealth in Australia
Using data from the second wave of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, conducted in 2002, this article provides information on the composition, distribution and correlates of the wealth holdings of Australian households. The survey results indicate that Australian households have an average net worth (or wealth) of just over A$400,000, comprising assets of $473,000 and debts of $68,000. The largest component of …
Participation of non-English-speaking-background immigrants in work-related training
This article uses representative data on a sample of Australian workers to examine whether non-English-speaking-background [NESB] immigrants are disadvantaged in terms of access to, and participation in, employment-related training. Results from the estimation of logit models explaining participation in various types of training indicate that NESB immigrant workers have much lower probabilities of receiving training, even after holding other indi…
Smoking and absence from work
The Relative Influence of Life Events and Hassles on Work-Related Injuries
Using data collected from over 1400 employees from 61 different workplaces, this study investigates the relative importance of stressful life events and daily hassles for the occurrence of injuries within the workplace. A multivariate model of the factors associated with injury occurrence is developed and estimated using probit regression techniques. The results provide strong support for the hypothesis that stress contributes to injuries in the …
Long working hours and physical activity
BACKGROUND: It is widely believed that persons employed in jobs demanding long working hours are at greater risk of physical inactivity than other workers, primarily because they have less leisure time available to undertake physical activity. The aim of this study was to test this hypothesis using prospective data obtained from a nationally representative sample of employed persons. METHODS: Longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labou…
The Experience of Refugees in the Australian Labor Market
This article applies sophisticated econometric techniques on a representative sample of Australian migrants who arrived as adults to examine the factors associated with success in securing employment and, in particular, to test how well the recent influx of refugees have done. After controlling for a number of other factors relevant to labor market status such as age, gender, education and premigration employment history, it is found that among n…
The Experience of Refugees in the Australian Labor Market
Workgroups, Efficiency Wages and Work Effort
(1992). Workgroups, Efficiency Wages and Work Effort. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 497-521.
The Determinants of Labor Absence
The authors analyze causes of absence from work using data from a survey distributed in 1988 to workers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The results indicate that workgroup cohesion (the degree to which employees work together closely and harmoniously) was associated with low levels of absence if job satisfaction was high, but with high levels of absence if job satisfaction was low. Some employee characteristics associate…
The Relative Influence of Life Events and Hassles on Work-Related Injuries
Using data collected from over 1400 employees from 61 different workplaces, this study investigates the relative importance of stressful life events and daily hassles for the occurrence of injuries within the workplace. A multivariate model of the factors associated with injury occurrence is developed and estimated using probit regression techniques. The results provide strong support for the hypothesis that stress contributes to injuries in the …
Do Explanations of Absenteeism Differ for Men and Women
Despite the consistent finding in the absence literature that women tend to be absent more often than men, little attention has been paid to whether the process of absence differs by sex. This issue is examined using data collected from 1401 Australian employees from 61 different workplaces. Hypotheses suggest that the predictive ability of job satisfaction, age, commuting time, family responsibilities, stressful life events and shift work on abs…
Smoking and absence from work
Participation of non-English-speaking-background immigrants in work-related training
This article uses representative data on a sample of Australian workers to examine whether non-English-speaking-background [NESB] immigrants are disadvantaged in terms of access to, and participation in, employment-related training. Results from the estimation of logit models explaining participation in various types of training indicate that NESB immigrant workers have much lower probabilities of receiving training, even after holding other indi…
How Temporary are Australia's Casual Jobs
Many people in Australia are concerned with the apparent trend towards the increased casualisation of the Australian workforce. In a recent paper published in this journal, for example, Campbell and Burgess (2001) reported on survey-based figures on the extent of casualisation collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia's central data collection agency. These data indicate that persons employed on a casual basis represented …
The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well‐Being and Ill‐Being
The accepted view among psychologists and, increasingly, economists is that household income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well‐being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2002 wave of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as pr…
Usual and Preferred Working Hours in Couple Households
Data from a representative survey of adult Australians are analysed for usual and preferred paid working time across couple types. We discover a time divide – many individuals working short hours desire longer hours of paid employment, while many individuals working long hours prefer shorter hours. The latter group is larger, with the average employee desiring fewer hours. For dual-earner couples with children, men average approximately 20 hours …
The dynamics of income poverty in Australia
This paper reports an analysis of income poverty dynamics in Australia using longitudinal data from the first three waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. As in other developed countries, far fewer people are found to be living in persistent poverty than are poor on an annual basis. With a poverty threshold set at 50 per cent of median equivalised income, just over four per cent of Australians were measure…
Female breadwinner families
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesize, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the …
Household wealth in Australia
Using data from the second wave of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, conducted in 2002, this article provides information on the composition, distribution and correlates of the wealth holdings of Australian households. The survey results indicate that Australian households have an average net worth (or wealth) of just over A$400,000, comprising assets of $473,000 and debts of $68,000. The largest component of …
Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods
The effects of household joblessness on mental health
Money Does not Buy Happiness
Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well‐being
This study uses nationally representative panel survey data for Australia to identify the role played by mismatches between hours actually worked and working time preferences in contributing to reported levels of job and life satisfaction. Three main conclusions emerge. First, it is not the number of hours worked that matters for subjective well‐being, but working time mismatch. Second, overemployment is a more serious problem than is underemploy…
Who Wants and Gets Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Using panel data for 2001-2005 from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the authors examine workers' desires for, and achievement of, work hour flexibility. They estimate a dynamic model that controls for preferences in previous years and tests for the effects of life events on both desired employment and desired work hours. Many life events, such as motherhood and retirement, are found to have predictable effec…
Associations between body mass index and health-related quality of life among Australian adults
Did Australia’s Baby Bonus Increase Fertility Intentions and Births
Understanding lifetime homeless duration
The variation in the amount of time people remain homeless has important policy implications with respect to reducing long‐term homelessness and designing more effective early intervention approaches. This paper examines the factors that influence lifetime homeless duration in Australia using data from the first wave of Journeys Home, a new national survey of individuals exposed to high levels of housing insecurity that employs more rigorous samp…
Working time and cigarette smoking
Panel Conditioning and Subjective Well-being
What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia
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