Non-Standard Employment and Job Satisfaction

This project is being conducted as part of a larger research program titled, The Dynamics of Economic and Social Change: An Analysis of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey.

Its main objective is to use the HILDA Survey data to test the hypothesis that non-standard employment, and especially casual employment, equates with sub-standard employment. The results cast strong doubt on this hypothesis.

The project has given rise to the following publication:

• Wooden, M. and Warren, D., ‘Non-standard Employment and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from the HILDA Survey’, Journal of Industrial Relations 46, September 2004, pp. 275-297 (with Diana Warren).

A working paper has also been produced and can be downloaded from the link below.

Working Paper No. 15/2003 The Characteristics of Casual and Fixed-Term Employment: Evidence from the HILDA Survey, by Mark Wooden and Diana Warren PDF format (142K)

The contact for this project is Professor Mark Wooden