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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15503
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
In the US almost 3 per cent of employees are absent from their job for reasons other than vacation, but are still technically employed. We argue that firms may find optimal to use temporary replacement workers to fill these vacant positions. We set up a matching model with directed search and double-sided heterogeneity. When a workers is temporarily forced out of the labour market, firms can freely destroy the job, put it in "mothball", or look for a temporary worker to "keep the seat warm". When the latter option is optimal, a market for temporary replacement workers emerges in equilibrium. In a quantitative application to the US labor market, replacement workers represent 2.7 per cent of total employment.
Schlagwörter: 
replacement workers
short-duration jobs
temporary jobs
worker heterogeneity
firm heterogeneity
employment at will
JEL: 
J22
J40
J15
J60
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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