Journal article
Non-standard "contingent" employment and job satisfaction: A panel data analysis
H Buddelmeyer, D Mcvicar, M Wooden
Industrial Relations | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1111/irel.12090
Abstract
Contingent forms of employment are usually associated with low-quality jobs and, by inference, jobs that workers find relatively unsatisfying. This assumption is tested using data from a representative household panel survey covering a country (Australia) with a high incidence of nonstandard employment. Results from the estimation of ordered logit regression models reveal that among males, both casual employees and labor-hire (agency) workers (but not fixed-term contract workers) report noticeably lower levels of job satisfaction, though this association diminishes with job tenure. Negative effects for women are mainly restricted to labor-hire workers.
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Funding Acknowledgements
This paper uses unit record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a project initiated and funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) and managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. The findings and views reported in this paper, however, are those of the authors and should not be attributed to either DSS or the Melbourne Institute. The data are available for research purposes under license. Details of how to obtain the data can be found at http://melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/. The data were extracted using PanelWhiz, an add-on package for Stata (http://www.PanelWhiz.eu). The Stata programs used to generate all results are available on request from the authors.