ERIC Number: ED565457
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 56
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ISBN: 978-1-922056-55-9
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Training and Its Impact on the Casual Employment Experience. Research Report
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Leung, Felix; McVicar, Duncan; Wooden, Mark
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
The proportion of people who are employed casually has been stable over the last 15 years at around 20% of the working-age population. For most, casual employment is a relatively temporary state. There are some, though, for whom casual employment is a more enduring state. Does undertaking work-related training help those who are casually employed move into permanent or fixed-term work? Does such training have any impact on the level of satisfaction casually employed people have with their jobs, employment opportunities, and life in general? Using data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this report investigates these issues. The authors find the impact of training on helping to move individuals from casual employment to more permanent work was minimal, as was the impact of training on an individual's satisfaction with their job or life. Key messages in this report include: (1) Casual workers are less likely to participate in work-related training than those in permanent or fixed-term employment; (2) There is little evidence that receiving work-related training affects the probability of moving into permanent or fixed-term employment. The apparent finding that casual workers who undertake work-related training are more likely to move into permanent or fixed-term work than those who do not becomes invalid when the panel nature of the data is exploited to account for unobserved differences between those receiving and those not receiving training; and (3) There is also little evidence of any strong impacts of work-related training on the level of satisfaction reported by casual workers with their job or life. The exception to this is satisfaction with employment opportunities among casually employed women. An appendix includes: Further details on methods and data. [Funding is provided through the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Job Training, Education Work Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, Employment Opportunities, National Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Multivariate Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Gender Differences
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Centre for Vocational Education Research
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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