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Is Part-time Employment a Stepping Stone to Full-time Employment?

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  • Lixin Cai
  • Vincent Law
  • Michael Bathgate

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This study examines the stepping stone effect of part-time employment for working-age Australians. Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the study finds that part-time employment increases the probability of future full-time employment by approximately nine percentage points for males and approximately six percentage points for females, compared to those who were initially not in the labour force, after observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity is accounted for. However, part-time employment does not appear to have a stepping stone effect when compared with unemployment.

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  • Lixin Cai & Vincent Law & Michael Bathgate, 2014. "Is Part-time Employment a Stepping Stone to Full-time Employment?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 90(291), pages 462-485, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:90:y:2014:i:291:p:462-485
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    1. Niklas Mäkinen & Jussi Tanskanen & Satu Ojala & Pasi Pyöriä, 2023. "Part-Time Workers’ Employment Trajectories by Length of Hours and Reason for Working Part-Time: An 8-Year Follow-Up Study," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(4), pages 21582440231, November.
    2. Maria Giovanna Bosco & Elisa Valeriani, 2018. "The Road to Permanent Work in Italy: “It’s Getting Dark, Too Dark to See”," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 4(3), pages 385-419, November.
    3. Lixin Cai, 2018. "Dynamic Labour Supply of Married Australian Women," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 32(3), pages 427-450, September.
    4. Maria Giovanna Bosco & Elisa Valeriani, 2017. "From temporary to permanent jobs: a stepping stone analysis for Emilia Romagna," EcoMod2017 10474, EcoMod.
    5. Fabian Busch & Robert Fenge & Carsten Ochsen, 2021. "Do Firms Hire More Older Workers? Evidence from Germany," CESifo Working Paper Series 9219, CESifo.
    6. Bosco, Maria Giovanna & Valeriani, Elisa, 2019. "Labour contracts and the stepping-stone effect in Emilia-Romagna: A multinomial analysis," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 13, pages 1-24.
    7. Jeff Borland & Michael Coelli, 2016. "Labour Market Inequality in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 92(299), pages 517-547, December.
    8. Bosco, Maria Giovanna & Valeriani, Elisa, 2018. "Labour contracts and stepping-stone effect in Italy: A multinomial analysis," Economics Discussion Papers 2018-13, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).

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