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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 256-275 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Industrial Relations |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 12 Mar 2015 |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |
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- Non-Standard “Contingent” Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Buddelmeyer, H., McVicar, D. and Wooden, M. (2015), Non-Standard “Contingent” Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 54: 256–275. doi: 10.1111/irel.12090, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.12090/abstract.
