Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161293 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10670
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study uses panel data for Australia from the HILDA Survey to estimate the wage differential between workers in temporary jobs and workers in permanent jobs. Specifically, unconditional quantile regression methods with fixed effects are used to examine how this gap varies over the entire wages distribution. While fixed-term contract workers are on rates of pay that are similar to permanent workers, low-paid casual workers experience a wage penalty and high-paid casual workers a wage premium compared to their permanent counterparts. Finally, temporary agency workers usually receive a wage premium, which is particularly large for the most well paid.
Subjects: 
temporary employment wages
HILDA Survey
quantile regression
longitudinal data
JEL: 
J31
J41
C21
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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