Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Temps and Contractors - Dual Labor Markets
This piece is about temps at Google. Temp jobs are clearly less attractive to the employee, but people will take them when a permanent job is not available. The question is - what jobs are permanent and what jobs are temp? When the same job has both sorts of employees, it makes one scratch one's head and wonder why. Is it market power for the firm in the labor market. (This is sometimes called monopsony.) Is the temp job an internship, but with a different label? Or is there some other explanation?
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We will see in class that the dual labor markets concept applies broadly. It is not always the case that the secondary labor market is for contract workers. In higher education the secondary market instructors are referred to as adjuncts.
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