Journal article
Four Dimensions of Quality in Australian Jobs
David C Ribar, Mark Wooden
The Economic Record | Wiley | Published : 2020
Abstract
We develop and analyse comprehensive, multi‐item scales of the quality of Australian jobs, using the rich measures of job characteristics from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Through exploratory methods and multidimensional item response theory modelling, we uncover four gender‐specific scales that describe the autonomy, demands/engagement, compensation adequacy and security of jobs. From 2001 to 2016, women’s job demands/engagement and compensation adequacy grew noticeably, and men’s job demands/engagement grew somewhat. Since the mid‐2000s, job security has fallen for both women and men. Job quality rises with job tenure, work experience and health, and falls..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This article uses unit record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey conducted by the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Social Services (https://doi.org/10.4225/87/VHRTR5).The findings and views reported in this paper are those of the authors only. The article's analysis data were extracted using PanelWhiz, a Stata add-on package written by John Haisken-DeNew. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Australian Research Council Discovery Project no. DP180103462. They thank Tessa Loriggio for valuable research assistance and Andrew Cherlin, participants at the 2019 Australian Conference of Economists, and seminar participants at Deakin University for helpful comments.