Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450406

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450406

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Discretionary Time: A New Method of Cross-National Welfare Comparison Focusing on Freedom. Cross-national comparisons of welfare regimes and their gender divisions explore issues of income and employment. Those bring liberation of a sort, but they do not exhaust people's freedom and autonomy. This Project will explore how paid and unpaid labour responsibilities interact, impinging on people's discretionary time and thus autonomy. A new measure of 'discretionary time' will be developed and its usefulness for cross-national comparisons illustrated through analysis of time use data from Australia, Finland, Canada and Sweden. Different ways of targeting social assistance to the most time-pressured groups in society will be examined for policy lessons from abroad.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $370,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Sociological Methodology And Research Methods | Social Policy And Planning | Social Philosophy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding other countries | Social ethics | Work not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Philosophy | Social Philosophy | Social Policy And Planning | Social ethics | Sociological Methodology And Research Methods | Understanding other countries | Work not elsewhere classified

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