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Is Under‐Employment due to Labour Hoarding? Evidence from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey
Author(s) -
Doiron Denise J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4932.00106
Subject(s) - hoarding (animal behavior) , labour economics , control (management) , industrial relations , work (physics) , economics , survey data collection , state (computer science) , demographic economics , business , management , engineering , medicine , computer science , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , algorithm , feeding behavior
In this paper, Australian data are used to study the characteristics of workers who are constrained in their hours of work. Matched employer–employee data allow us to control for their employers’ characteristics as well. In particular, the information on the firms’ state of demand provides useful evidence on the underlying cause of under‐employment. The labour hoarding model cannot explain the observed patterns involving under‐employment. Alternative explanations are offered.