People and Place articles from December 2007

People and Place archives from December 2007

A boy for you and a girl for me: do men want sons and women want daughters?(Report)
December 1, 2007... Survey data show that more than 60 per cent of Australian couples yet to have a first child say that the child's sex does not matter. Of the minority who do express a preference most would prefer a son, though men more so than women. Where...

Family diversification in Australia--the increasing share of blended and step families.
December 1, 2007... Non-traditional couple families with children appear to be becoming more widespread in Australia. These include families with step children and families that consist of both step children and the couple's natural children (blended families)....

Migration, ethnic concentration and international trade growth: the case of Italians in Australia.(Report)
December 1, 2007... Governments and advocates tend to argue that immigration promotes trade between sending and host countries to the benefit of both. The scholarly literature is rather more circumspect. In the present study the authors find that migrants from...

Danby versus held: the story of the two Jewish candidates in Melbourne Ports--take two.(Michael Danby and Adam Held)
December 1, 2007... The federal electorate of Melbourne Ports has long been a safe Labor seat. It also has a high proportion of Jewish voters. Since 1998 it has been held by Michael Danby, a Jew and a strong supporter of Israel. Recent boundary and demographic...

Attitudinal divergence in a Melbourne region of high immigrant concentration: a case study.(Survey)(Case study)
December 1, 2007... Dingley Village and Springvale are two suburbs in South-Eastern Melbourne that are geographically close but socially distinct. The first contains high proportions of relatively-affluent Australia-born residents, and the second high proportions...

Ethnic diversity and social cohesion in Melbourne.(Report)
December 1, 2007... Robert Putnam has recently published research showing that, in the United States, higher levels of ethnic diversity are associated with lower levels of social capital. Volunteering is a key indicator of social capital. Data from the 2006...

What if Stern is wrong?(Nicholas Stern )(Critical essay)
December 1, 2007... This article challenges several of the core assumptions on which the report on the Economics of Climate Change by Nicholas Stern is based. These include Stern's estimates of the potential for renewable energy and the capacity for carbon capture...

Review of David Denemark, Gabrielle Meagher, Shaun Wilson, Mark Western and Timothy Phillips (Eds), Australian Social Attitudes 2: citizenship, work and aspirations.
December 1, 2007... This is a comprehensive, clearly written sequel to Australian Social Attitudes: The First Report. (1) Like the earlier volume, it is based on the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, this time the one fielded in 2005 (the previous one was in...