Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
利用阿根廷关联数据，估计企业支付给正式工和临时工工资溢价的差异，发现高工资企业支付给临时工的溢价仅为正式工的49%。
Abstract 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).