This report presents findings, mainly from the 2012 Survey of Working Life, on non-standard employment, job security, and job flexibility in New Zealand’s labour market. Summary of key points Key findings in the report are:

The debate on zero hours contracts has been contentious and largely driven by the media, but what do we really know about zero hours and other flexible employment? To encourage a more balanced debate, UKCES commissioned a short survey of 2,000 UK workers and hosted a discussion with its HR Leaders Advisory Panel.

This paper uses the 2011 Census data to quantify the impact of educational disadvantage among Indigenous Australians for labour market participation, employment and occupational destinations. Introduction Economic participation is one of the fundamental building blocks identified in the Closing the Gap initiative (COAG 2008) for reducing disadvantage experienced by Indigenous Australians. This is because work...

A common but understudied argument is that the reorganization of work has contributed to the deterioration of labor standards in the US over the past four decades. Yet an analysis of existing aggregate data does not show a strong, unambiguous increase in key measures of nonstandard work. This paper therefore identifies data gaps and research...

This paper explores the patterns of underemployment for mature aged workers in Australia, and seeks in particular to determine the principal factors that contribute to a heightened risk of underemployment. Abstract Underemployment is a serious and pervasive problem both in terms of its impact on those individuals affected, and for the economy as a whole...