Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Drenik, Andres; Jager, Simon; Plotkin, Pascuel; Schoefer, Benjamin
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of British Columbia; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01037
• 发表日期: 2023-01
• 页码: 206-216
• 关键词: high wage workers; FIRMS; arrangements; INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; rise

摘要

We estimate how much firms differentiate pay premia between regular and outsourced workers in temp agency work arrangements. We leverage unique Argentinian administrative data that feature links between user firms (the workplaces where temp workers perform their labor) and temp agencies (their formal employers). We estimate that a high-wage user firm that pays a regular worker a 10% premium pays a temp worker on average only a 4.9% premium, compared to what these workers would earn in a low-wage user firm in their respective work arrangements. This 49% pass-through constitutes the midpoint between the benchmarks for insiders (one) and the competitive spot-labor market (zero).