 Are Part-Time Workers poor?Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2003, vol. 6, issue 1, 177-193 Abstract: The proportion of Australian workers who are employed on a part-time basis has almost trebled in the last thirty years to reach its current level of 28 per cent. Part-time work is one type of ‘non-standard’ employment that is viewed with concern for it is alleged that part-time jobs provide a low standard of living for those employed in them. This paper focuses upon an extreme version of that concern: the incidence of poverty among part-time workers. Unit-record data are used to compare the poverty rates of part-time workers with those of full-time workers, the unemployed and people not in the labour force. The incidence of poverty among part-time workers is found to be a little lower than that of the entire adult population. The major reason for the relatively modest poverty rate of part-time workers is that a large proportion of them live in families with a full-time worker. Keywords: Measurement and Analysis of Poverty; Time Allocation and Labor Supply (Hours of Work, Part-Time Employment, Work Sharing, Absenteeism, Quits). (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ozl:journl:v:6:y:2003:i:1:p:177-193 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School Contact information at EDIRC. |
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