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Record W1488366199 · doi:10.26686/lew.v0i0.1723

The Quality of Temporary Jobs: Insights from the Survey of Working Life

2010· article· en· W1488366199 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Sylvia Dixon

Bibliographic record

VenueLabour Employment and Work in New Zealand · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicEmployment and Welfare Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCasualTemporary workQuarter (Canadian coin)Agency (philosophy)Work (physics)Demographic economicsQuality (philosophy)BusinessLabour economicsEconomicsPolitical scienceGeographyEngineeringSociology

Abstract

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This paper discusses some of the insights that can be gained from the Survey of Working Life (2008) on the main features of temporary employment, the reasons that are given for working in a temporary job, and the pay and conditions of temporary employees. In the March 2008 quarter 9.4 percent of employees were working in temporary jobs. Most of the older adults and more than half of the young adults who were employed on a temporary basis indicated that they preferred temporary work, while prime­aged adults were roughly equally divided between preferring temporary work and wanting a permanent job. There were substantial differences between temporary and permanent employees in the job quality indicators considered, but also substantial differences among the four main types of temporary worker (casual, fixed­term, temporary employment agency and seasonal).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.049
Threshold uncertainty score0.098

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.101
GPT teacher head0.378
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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