Temporary help services and the volatility of industry output

To gain a better understanding of how fluctuations in output influence firms' decision to hire temporary workers, the authors examine the relationship between output volatility and the use of temporary labor. They find that, all things being equal, temporary employment is higher in states with more volatile industries and lower in states with a relatively high degree of co-movement of industry output fluctuations.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Ono, Yukako ; Zelenev, Alexei
Published in:	Economic Perspectives. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. - 2003, Q II, v. 27, no. 2, p. 15-28
Publisher:	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Subject:	Temporary employees \| Employment (Economic theory)

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Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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