The Impact of Extending Employment Protection to Agency Workers on Firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Micco, Alejandro; Munoz, Pablo
• 署名单位: Universidad de Chile; Universidad de Chile; Getulio Vargas Foundation
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MACROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7707
• DOI: 10.1257/mac.20210249
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 66-101
• 关键词: temporary-help jobs; PRODUCTIVITY; inputs; arrangements; demand; wages; rise

摘要

We study the impact of a reform that extended employment protection to temporary agency workers. Using a difference -in -difference research design, we show that plants more exposed to the regulation experienced a decrease in revenues and total employment, and that the latter effect was attenuated in industries with high elasticity of substitution between agency and nonagency workers. We also find that labor misallocation increased as a consequence of the regulation. A model of labor demand in the presence of agency work rationalizes these results. (JEL J22, J23, J31, K31, L60, M51, O15)