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    Time for Good Care and Job Quality: Managing Stress among Older Workers in the Aged Care Sector
    Hart, A ; Bowman, D ; Mallett, S (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-03-04)
    Improved job quality will make longer working lives in the aged care sector more sustainable. We interviewed 20 older aged care workers to identify which job characteristics are significant for health and to identify policy remedies. Workers take pleasure and pride in responding autonomously to a care recipient's situation, developing understanding, maintaining morale and performing intimate bodily care with dignity. However, a shortage of staff time requires workers to take a task-oriented approach. This causes worker stress and diminishes their desire and capacity to delay retirement. In the Australian context, regulating minimum staffing is the most suitable policy response.
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    The utility of new data in understanding housing insecurity
    Yanotti, MB ; Banks, M ; de Silva, A ; Anantharama, N ; Whiteford, P ; Bowman, D ; Csereklyei, Z (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), 2021-03-01)
    • This exploratory data project investigates the potential of the DSS DOMINO dataset to support housing research and policy development. • The key difference is that DOMINO is mainly comprised of flow data which gives within year income volatility data rather than stock data which gives a single annual, or point-in-time income and labour force status data. • Demand for Commonwealth Rental Assistance (CRA) is far higher than commonly understood and there is a significant churn of individuals who receive CRA.
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    From me to us: Strengthening our Financial Capabilities
    Brown, JT ; Banks, M ; Bowman, D (WILEY, 2020-12)
    For low‐income or precariously employed households in Australia, the re‐allocation of risk over the past forty years has four crucial economic dimensions: the fraying of the social security net; changes in labour market dynamics; heightened uncertainty arising from income volatilities; and new hazards generated by the financialisation of daily life. Household financial capabilities are negatively influenced by the compounding impacts of each of these risks. Case examples from a BSL study illustrate each impact and their interactions. The dominant idea that individual capabilities are malleable (and thus can be optimised) whilst circumstances and norms are fixed is countered by an expanded view of Sen’s/Nussbaum’s capability approach (CA) that includes collective capabilities. Collective capabilities can change norms, and so, the concept provides a needed link between the political and macroeconomic movement of risk re‐allocation and individual or household financial capabilities. The Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union is used as an example to show how collective action can challenge structural conditions, and expand or protect the capabilities of individuals.