Non-Standard Employment and Wage Growth in Australia |
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| Authors: | Inga Laß Mark Wooden |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany;2. Wooden, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and after restricting attention to employees, we observe an increase over time in the non-standard employment share, all of which is concentrated in the period since 2009. Further, we find clear evidence that employees in non-standard forms of employment have experienced relatively low rates of growth in hourly wages when compared with permanent full-time employees. Nevertheless, decomposition analysis suggests that changes in workforce composition by employment type have had a very small (and insignificant) impact on the overall rate of wage growth in recent years. |
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