5 - From Partnered to Single: Financial Security Over a Lifetime

The HILDA children, but a comparison to women without Survey captures information on an annual basis children, as well as to men, is also conducted to over a period of 19 years, ensuring we can better understand the role of children and the observe the dynamics of these events and how role of being the primary carer for children in the effects of separation change as time passes. [...] In line with Ozawo and Yoon compare previously employed and previously (2002), they find that men are more likely to unemployed women, and homemakers, and focus re-partner the higher they are in the income on the timing of the labour market response to distribution, while the opposite is true for women. [...] The focus of this report is the outcomes of the The outcomes for men and women after a separating adults and as a result it does not relationship ceased to exist are examined, study the outcomes of children who may or may regardless of whether the individual was in not live with the relevant adults. [...] Separation: individual i experiences a loss of For every individual who experiences a partner, if i forms a couple with individual j in separation, the natural focal point of the Wave t, and in Wave t+1 either analysis is the time of separation—subsequent outcomes up to five years after the event and the - forms a couple with a different individual k. [...] Persons one to the first adult in the household, a weight in employment are those of working age who of 0.5 to every further adult in the household were engaged in any activity to produce goods and a weight of 0.3 to every child below age 15 in or provide services for pay or profit, or without the household.