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Poverty Rates Among Part-Time and Casual Workers

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The proportion of Australian workers who are employed on either a part-time or a casual basis has been increasing for the past several decades. By the beginning of the 21 st century, 30 percent of employment is of this type. The common perception seems to be that part-time and casual jobs are undesirable. For example, Sharan Burrow, President of the ACTU, in her 14 February 2001 address to the Committee for Economic Development asserted that "60% of all casual workers require morehours to ensure a living wage". But economic status depends not only upon the worker's own earnings but also on his or her living arrangements and the earnings of other members of his or her family. This paper uses unit-record data from the ABS' latest Income and Housing Cost Survey and Forms of Employment Survey to compare the poverty rates of part-time and casual workers with those of full-time workers, permanent workers, the unemployed and people not in the labour force.

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  • Rodgers, J.R., 2001. "Poverty Rates Among Part-Time and Casual Workers," Economics Working Papers wp01-09, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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