This study examines eldercare in private households and the employment behaviour of female caregivers in Europe. Based on the first three waves of the European Community Household Panel we estimate probit-models to analyse the probability of caregiving and we use a simplified difference-in-difference approach to explain the correlation between changes in caregiving behaviour and changes in work...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 1/15 December 2003 179 11/12 603-HIDDEN ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.com.au The Research Enterprise DURING THE 20TH CENTURY Australians have benefited immensely from improvements in their general health and life expectancy. Our average life span has increased by 25 years, and even in the century’s dying decade we managed to gain...

Action research is a small-scale intervention in the functioning of the real world to address practitioners’ own issues and carry out a close examination of the effects of such an intervention. Classroom-based research, or action research, can be the viable solution to some pandemic academic sluggishness and scientific apathy. However, the erroneous impression that research is an elite discipli...