Wage differentials for temporary services work: evidence from administrative data

Lewis M. Segal and Daniel Sullivan

No WP-98-23, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Abstract: We use administrative data from the unemployment insurance system State of Washington to study the magnitude of the wage differential associated with work in the temporary services industry. We find that temp wage rates are 15% to 20% below the levels that might have been expected based on trends during other periods in workers' careers even after controlling for differences between temps and other workers. Comparing temp wages immediately before and after temp work or to the wages on non-temp jobs begun during the same period as workers were in the temp industry yields estimates of the temp work penalty as low as 10%.

Keywords: Wages; Temporary employees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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