Non-standard “contingent” employment and job satisfaction: : A panel data analysis

• Autores: Hielke Buddelmeyer, Duncan McVicar, Mark Wooden
• Localización: Industrial Relations: A journal of Economy and Society, ISSN-e 1468-232X, Vol. 54, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 256-275
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.