ABSTRACT Responses to the rise of insecure work are complicated by claims that emerging generations place less importance on security of employment, preferring ‘flexibility’. This paper investigates attitudes towards job security among young adults in Australia using survey and semi-structured interview data from the Life Patterns Study, a mixed-methods longitudinal study of two cohorts of Australian young adults (finishing school 15 years apart, in 1991 and 2006). Analysis shows that, contrary to the stereotype, job security was rated as the most important factor in deciding on a job by both cohorts. Moreover, although they also said they value flexibility, the school leaving cohort of 2006 put greater importance on job security as a factor in deciding on a job, both early in and at the end of their 20s. However, the qualitative interview data suggest that caution is needed in interpreting continuity and change in the importance of job security relative to flexibility, as there was evidence of a generational shift in the way the 2006 cohort were conceptualising employment security.

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两代澳大利亚年轻人对工作安全的态度的连续性和变化

摘要对不安全工作的增加的回应因声称新生代对就业安全的重视程度较低而倾向于“灵活性”而变得复杂。本文使用生活模式研究的调查和半结构化面试数据调查了澳大利亚年轻人对工作保障的态度，该研究是对两个澳大利亚年轻人群体（相隔15年的完成学业，分别于1991年和2006年进行的混合方法纵向研究） ）。分析表明，与刻板印象相反，工作安全被认为是两个队列中决定工作的最重要因素。此外，尽管他们也说他们很重视灵活性，但2006年毕业的学生在20多岁的早期和末期更加重视工作安全，这是决定工作的一个因素。然而，