Abstract

data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveal that while average hours of work have changed very little in recent decades, this is the result of two forces pulling in opposite directions, with growth in the part-time employment share offsetting the rise in the average number of hours being worked by full-time employees. More importantly, it has been widely recognised that this increase in the average number of hours being worked by full-time employees is predominantly the result of an increase in the proportion of the workforce regularly working what might be thought of as excessive or unreasonable hours

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