The Diversity of Casual Contract Employment
Staff research paper
The Diversity of Casual Contract Employment by Greg Murtough and Matthew Waite was released on 14 December 2000. The paper examines the characteristics of casual contract employees. Also see:
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CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments, Glossary, Key messages, Overview
1 Introduction
2 Selecting an appropriate data source
2.1 Problems with the ABS definition of a casual employee
2.2 Forms of Employment Survey (FOES)
2.3 FOES confidentialised unit record file (CURF)
3 Conceptual issues and institutional background
3.1 Job traits associated with lower employee welfare
3.2 Institutional arrangements
4 Quantitative analysis
4.1 Personal characteristics
4.2 Employment characteristics
4.3 Summary of descriptive results
4.4 Qualitative summary of econometric results
5 Concluding comments
5.1 Differences among casual contract employees
5.2 Implications
A Details of Econometric Analysis
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