The value of a job is an important question from management, human resources, legal and public policy perspectives, yet we lack good empirical estimates of this value. This paper sets out a theoretical framework for valuing jobs and estimates the average economic value of an Australian job at approximately $104,000. However, judges awarding compensation for unfair dismissal under the Fair Work Act (based on the common law “Sprigg Test”) are implicitly valuing a job at around $10,000. If the economic value estimate is correct then workers place a high value on keeping their job, which has important human resources management implications, such as worker commitment and risk taking. Estimates of the value of a job to the worker are also the basis of calculations of the value of jobs to society, which drives job search assistance and retraining policies, investments in early childhood education, macroeconomic and other policies.

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什么是澳大利亚工作的价值？

从管理、人力资源、法律和公共政策的角度来看，工作的价值是一个重要问题，但我们缺乏对该价值的良好实证估计。本文提出了一个评估工作的理论框架，并估计澳大利亚工作的平均经济价值约为 104,000 美元。然而，根据《公平工作法》（基于普通法“斯普里格测试”）对不公平解雇给予赔偿的法官隐含地将一份工作估价为 10,000 美元左右。如果经济价值估计是正确的，那么工人就会高度重视保住工作，这对人力资源管理具有重要意义，例如工人承诺和冒险。工作对工人价值的估计也是计算工作对社会价值的基础，