Manufacturing Plants' Use of Temporary Workers: An Analysis Using Census Microdata
利用工厂产能利用率调查数据，研究了制造工厂如何根据产出波动和其他特征使用临时工，发现工厂在预期产出下降时更倾向使用临时工，且未来产出不确定性越高，临时工使用越多。
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.