Time, Money and Job Spillover: How Parents' Jobs Affect Young People

By Barbara Pocock and Jane Clarke

The perspectives of young people about their parents' paid and unpaid work, and their preferences for time or money through more parental work, and their views about how their parents jobs affect them.

The research shows that more Australian children are looking for more time from parents than more money from more parental work, though this varies by income level, location and parental hours. The preference for time over money is consistent across single and dual income households.

(Journal of Industrial Relations; vol 47, no 1, March 2005)