The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth R. Troske

NBER Working Paper No. 13520
Issued in October 2007

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This work was supported by a grant from the Rockefeller/Russell Sage Foundation Future of Work Program. We wish to acknowledge helpful comments from David Autor, Bernhard Broockman, John Fitzgerald, Gerald Oettinger, Jeffrey Smith, Daniel Sullivan, and participants in the NBER Conference on Labor Market Intermediation, the Third Conference on Evaluation Research (Mannheim), annual conferences of the Midwest Economics Association and the Society of Labor Economists, and seminars at the Bowdoin College and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Excellent research assistance was provided by Kyung-Seong Jeon and Chao Gu. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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