The Dynamics of Low Pay Employment in Australia

Lixin Cai

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this study shows that workers who have entered low pay from higher pay also have a higher hazard rate of transitioning to higher pay; and those who have entered low pay from non-employment are more likely to return to non-employment. Union members, public sector jobs and working in medium to large size firms tend to increase the hazard rate of transitioning to higher pay, while immigrants from non-English speaking countries and workers with health problems have a lower hazard rate of moving into higher pay. There is some evidence that the longer a worker is on low pay, the less likely he or she is to transition to higher pay.

Keywords: Earnings; low pay; data analysis; modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J08 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09-20
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Published in International Journal of Manpower 7.36(2015): pp. 1095-1123

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Journal Article: The dynamics of low pay employment in Australia (2015)
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