The Growth of Non-traditional Employment: Are Jobs Becoming More Precarious?
Preprint
- 26 July 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Examines the limitations of statistics for the analysis of non-traditional employment. Particular attention is given to problems interpreting the measure of casual employees in data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Much of the discussion about non-traditional employment in Australia has drawn on the ABS measure of casual employees because it is one of the few regularly published measures of non-traditional employment. It shows that the share of all employed persons who are casuals - often interpreted as an indicator of "precarious" employment - grew from 13 percent in 1984 to 22 percent in 1999. The staff paper finds that the ABS measure of casual employees in August 1998 was overstated by 34 percent, because it included people who were not genuine employees with a casual employment contract, and at least one-third of all employees with a casual employment contract did not work in a way that was casual (occasional, irregular or short term).Keywords
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