Fixed-term Employees in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Preface, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Glossary, Key Messages

1 Introduction
1.1 What is fixed-term employment?
1.2 Historical background
1.3 Why might fixed-term employees be of policy interest?
1.4 Structure of the paper

2 Why might employers and employees choose fixed-term employment?
2.1 Why might firms engage fixed-term employees?
2.2 Why might people prefer to work on a fixed-term basis?

3 The incidence of fixed-term employment in Australia
3.1 Cross-section evidence on fixed-term employment
3.2 Evidence from specific sectors
3.3 Might fixed-term employment have become more common?

4 Characteristics of fixed-term contract employees
4.1 Characteristics of fixed-term and ongoing employees
4.2 Results from a multivariate analysis
4.3 Earnings of fixed-term employees

5 Conclusions

A Employment arrangements

B Characteristics data

C Details of econometric analysis

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