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    RECONCILING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE: THE EFFECT OF PRESCHOOLING
    Moschion, J (PRESSES FOND NAT SCI POLIT, 2012-03)
    Résumé En France, le nombre d’enfants a un impact négatif sur l’offre de travail des mères. Cet article pose la question de savoir si la préscolarisation réduit cet effet et favorise ainsi la conciliation entre vie familiale et vie professionnelle. En utilisant l’hétérogénéité géographique des taux de scolarisation à 2 ans, nous trouvons que la préscolarisation aide les mères diplômées du supérieur à concilier leurs responsabilités familiale et professionnelle lorsqu’elles passent de deux à plus de deux enfants. En revanche, la préscolarisation ne permet pas aux mères moins diplômées de se maintenir en activité lorsque le nombre d’enfants augmente.
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    Introducing 'Journeys Home'
    Wooden, MP ; Bevitt, AJ ; Chigavazira, AT ; Greer, N ; Johnson, G ; Killackey, EJ ; Moschion, J ; Scutella, R ; Tseng, Y ; Watson, N (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2012)
    Homelessness, despite being a major social policy issue in Australia, is an area that is not well served by data. Most sorely lacking is any large-scale panel study that follows a broad sample of persons with recent experience of homelessness and unstable housing histories. In 2010, the Australian Government set about rectifying this deficiency when it commissioned the Melbourne Institute to undertake a new panel study, now known as ‘Journeys Home’. This study draws its sample from the population of Centrelink income-support recipients, targeting persons identified in the administrative data as having recent experience of homelessness, as well as others with similar characteristics who may be vulnerable to housing difficulties in the future. This article summarises the design of this new study and reports on fieldwork outcomes from the first two waves of data collection.