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Factors Associated with Casual Employment: Evidence from the AWIRS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Mark Wooden  and
Anne Hawke
Anne Hawke
Affiliation:
National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University of South Australia
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Abstract

This article uses data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys conducted in 1989/90 and 1995 to examine the related questions of: (i) what are the characteristics of workers who accept casual employment; and (ii) what types of workplaces and firms are most likely to employ workers on a casual basis. The evidence presented suggests that while supply-side characteristics are not unimportant, demand-side factors appear to provide more likely explanations for changes in the overall level of casual employment.

Type
Symposium on Dimensions of Precarious Employment
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , June 1998 , pp. 82 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1998

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Footnotes

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The research underlying this article was funded by a small Australian Research Council grant. The authors would like to thank Peter Dawkins, Mark Harris and an anonymous referee for helpful comments and advice.

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