Manufacturing Plants' Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Microdata

Yukako Ono, Daniel Sullivan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1442494

Manufacturing Plants' Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Microdata

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Yukako Ono

Department of Business and Commerce Keio University Tokyo Japan
Daniel Sullivan

Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago IL

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公開日: 2013-03-18

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DOI

10.1111/irel.12018
10.2139/ssrn.1442494

公開者: Wiley

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<jats:p>Using plant‐level data from the plant capacity utilization survey, we explore how manufacturing plants' use of temporary workers is associated with the nature of their output fluctuations and other plant characteristics. We find that plants tend to use temporary workers when their output is expected to fall; this may indicate that firms use temporary workers to reduce costs associated with dismissing permanent employees. In addition, we find that plants whose future output levels are subject to greater uncertainty tend to use more temporary workers. We also examine the effects of wage and benefit levels for permanent workers, unionization rates, turnover rates, seasonal factors, and plant size and age on the use of temporary workers; based on our results, we discuss various views of why firms use temporary workers.</jats:p>