Acknowledgement
This research was supported in part by a Seeding Grant from Swinburne Institute of Technology. The authors acknowledge the help given by John Pidgeon, George Ooi, Leigh Baker, Eileen Doubtfire in the preparation of this paper.
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Kilmartin, C., Wulff, M.G. Educational and labour force participation of Australian Young People Living in two- and one-parent families. Journal of Population Research 1, 121–139 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03029406
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