employment services sector, which has been a particularly important area of domestic outsourcing. In addition, we examine … domestic outsourcing and its implications for employment patterns and to inconsistencies across data sets in the information …

Temporary-help jobs offer rapid entry into paid employment, but they are typically brief and it is unknown whether they … foster longer-term employment. We utilize the unique structure of Detroit's welfare-to-work program to identify the effect of … subsequent earnings and employment outcomes among participants. In contrast, job placements with direct-hire employers …

We estimate the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services—comprised primarily of temporary help and … professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major … contribution of the paper is the construction of panel data on employment by occupation and industry from the Occupational …