University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities
The mining industry makes up a large portion of the gross domestic product (GDP) in Australia, although securing human resources remains a problem in that field. The aim of this paper is to identify Australian university mining students’ preferences, considering it as potential employees’ preference...
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| author | Ito, Yutaka Mikami, Shuto Jang, Hyong Doo Taheri, Abbas Tanaka, Kenta Kawamura, Youhei |
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| description | The mining industry makes up a large portion of the gross domestic product (GDP) in Australia, although securing human resources remains a problem in that field. The aim of this paper is to identify Australian university mining students’ preferences, considering it as potential employees’ preferences, for labour conditions at mining sites by means of a discrete choice experiment to promote efficient improvements in labour conditions in the mining industry. The data of 93 respondents analysed in this paper was collected by survey carried out in two universities in Australia. The result of the study showed that students have preferences on several factors such as wage, fatality rate, working position, commuting style, and company. Students having specific sociodemographic characters were found to show specific preferences on labour conditions. The results of this study indicate the potential average of appropriate monetary compensation for each factor. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-782562021-01-07T07:46:48Z University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities Ito, Yutaka Mikami, Shuto Jang, Hyong Doo Taheri, Abbas Tanaka, Kenta Kawamura, Youhei 0914 - Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy The mining industry makes up a large portion of the gross domestic product (GDP) in Australia, although securing human resources remains a problem in that field. The aim of this paper is to identify Australian university mining students’ preferences, considering it as potential employees’ preferences, for labour conditions at mining sites by means of a discrete choice experiment to promote efficient improvements in labour conditions in the mining industry. The data of 93 respondents analysed in this paper was collected by survey carried out in two universities in Australia. The result of the study showed that students have preferences on several factors such as wage, fatality rate, working position, commuting style, and company. Students having specific sociodemographic characters were found to show specific preferences on labour conditions. The results of this study indicate the potential average of appropriate monetary compensation for each factor. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78256 10.3390/resources9030029 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI AG fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 0914 - Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Ito, Yutaka Mikami, Shuto Jang, Hyong Doo Taheri, Abbas Tanaka, Kenta Kawamura, Youhei University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities |
| title | University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities |
| title_full | University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities |
| title_fullStr | University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities |
| title_full_unstemmed | University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities |
| title_short | University Students’ Preferences for Labour Conditions at a Mining Site: Evidence from Two Australian Universities |
| title_sort | university students’ preferences for labour conditions at a mining site: evidence from two australian universities |
| topic | 0914 - Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78256 |