# **Table 4**

|<br> <br>|Wave 4 Job<br><br>|Chara<br>|cteristics<br>|byOccu<br>|pation ‐ Yo<br><br>|uth<br>||||'|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Job Category<br>|raining<br>|eals|Health|redit|Pension<br>|Severance Stress S|atisfaction|Contract1|Contract2|edian MonthlyWage(1000s)|Mean Wage|**Wage Obs**|
|1. Self‐employed|0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.59<br>(0.59)|0.69<br>(0.46)|0|0|285|3862<br>(5930)|**228**|
|2. Self‐employed with unpaid fam|<br>0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.56<br>(0.64)|0.74<br>(0.44)|0|0|245|5434<br>(11966.1)|**130**|
|3. Self‐employed withpermanen|0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.57|0.79|0|0|1000|30516|**13**|
|||||||(0.74)|(0.43)||||(80948.56)||
|4. Government worker/employe|0.42|0.13|0.14|0.25|0.24|0.09<br>3.4|0.74|0.17|0.17|475|5134.19|**135**|
||(0.42)|(0.49)|(0.38)|(0.43)|(0.18)|(0.36) (0.72)|(0.43)|(0.24)|(0.37)||(5339.50)||
|5. Private worker/employee|0.22<br>|0.4<br>|0.18<br>|0.24<br>|0.03<br>|0.15<br>3.41<br>|0.75<br>|0.6<br>|0.17<br>|512|3747.94<br>|**1508**|
||(0.42)|(0.49)|(0.38)|(0.43)|(0.18)|(0.36) (0.72)|(0.43)|(0.24)|(0.37)||(10654)||
|6. Unpaid familyworker|0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.7|0.8|0|0|0|0|**938**|
|||||||(0.55)|(0.40)||||||
|7. Casual non‐agriculture|0|0.42|0.01|0.08|0|0<br>3.56|0.73|0.02|0|187.5|2014.65|**102**|
|||(0.50)|(0.10)|(0.27)||(0.71)|(0.45)|(0.14)|||(3228.82)||
|8. Casual agriculture|0|0.37|0.06|0.09|0|0.01<br>3.56|0.67|0.01|0.03|300|2936.15|**300**|
|||(0.48)|(0.24)|(0.29)|(0.06)|(0.08) (0.66)|(0.47)|(0.10)|(0.16)||(4277.91)||

# **Table 5**

|<br>|Wave 4 Job<br>|Charac<br>|teristics<br>|byOccu<br>|pation ‐ Ad<br>|ults<br>||||'|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Job Category|Training|Meals|Health|Credit|Pension|Severance Stress|atisfaction|Contract1|Contract2|Median MonthlyWage(1000s)|Mean Wage|**Wage Obs**|
|1. Self‐employed|0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.61|0.82|0|0|295|34826|**3088**|
|||||||(0.60)|(0.38)||||(1135819)||
|2. Self‐employed with unpaid fam|<br>0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.67|0.86|0|0|296|14557|**3200**|
|||||||(0.56)|(0.35)||||(417420.6)||
|3. Self‐employed withpermanen|0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.41|85.6|0|0|1275|2887819|**304**|
|||||||(0.69)|(0.36)||||(50000000)||
|4. Government worker/employe|0.59|0.1|0.16|0.39|0.66|0.14<br>3.4|0.92|0.22|0.08|1500|11536.65|**1261**|
||(0.49)|(0.30)|(0.36)|(0.49)|(0.47)|(0.34) (0.70)|(0.27)|(0.42)|(0.26)||(12088.14)||
|5. Private worker/employee|0.2|0.31|0.22|0.3|0.08|0.24<br>3.4|0.8|0.06|0.08|694|5548.54|**4259**|
||(0.40)|(0.46)|(0.41)|(0.46)|(0.27)|(0.43) (0.72)|(0.40)|(0.25)|(0.28)||(8124)||
|6. Unpaid familyworker|0|0|0|0|0|0<br>3.7|0.86|0|0|0|0|**2213**|
|||||||(0.55)|(0.34)||||||
|7. Casual non‐agriculture|0|0.42|0.01|0.08|0|0<br>3.7|0.74|0.01|0|190|1995.01|**629**|
|||(0.49)|(0.08)|(0.27)||(0.04) (0.53)|(0.44)|(0.12)|||(3336.06)||
|8. Casual agriculture|0|0.37|0.02|0.1|0|0.01<br>3.61|0.74|0.01|0.01|445|4054.28|**1054**|
|||(0.48)|(0.15)|(0.30)|(0.03)|(0.10) (0.60)|(0.44)|(0.11)|(0.10)||(12497.65)||

It can be seen from tables 1‐3, for both youth and adults, that desirable job characteristics are generally positively correlated with each other. For example, the provision of training for adults is positively correlated with all desirable job characteristics except the lack of stress, which implies that jobs where training is provided are more stressful on average than jobs without training. Similarly, training for youth is positively correlated with all other characteristics except for wage, meals and stress. The difference in the non‐significant correlation between wages and training for youth and the moderate positive correlation (24%) for the same variables for adults, is striking. However, this is not too surprising as some jobs in which youth are trained may be `apprenticeship’ type jobs where training is negatively related to wages.

The magnitude of the correlations varies greatly with the greatest being the correlation between health benefits and severance entitlement for adults (42%) with many other correlations being much smaller (less than 10%). None of the correlations are particularly surprising except for job satisfaction, which for adults, has no significant correlation to wages. Also, for youth, it is surprising that wage is not significantly correlated with most of the other job characteristics (only 4 out of 10 of the correlations with wage are significant for youth). This may imply that identifying “favorable jobs” for youth may be more difficult in that the key job characteristic of wage is not related to many other desirable job characteristics (particularly the human capital enhancing characteristic of training). Perhaps though, the most important correlation is between satisfaction and training. Satisfaction 21