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100	1		_aAbraham, Katharine G. _94429
245	1	0	_aMeasuring the Gig Economy: _bCurrent Knowledge and Open Issues / _cKatharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky, James R. Spletzer.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2018.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w24950
500			_aAugust 2018.
520	3		_aThe rise of the "gig economy" has attracted wide attention from both scholars and the popular media. Much of this attention has been devoted to jobs mediated through various online platforms. While non-traditional work arrangements have been a perennial subject of debate and study, the perception that new technology is producing an accelerated pace of change in the organization of work has fueled a resurgence of interest in how such changes may be affecting both workers and firms. This paper provides a typology of work arrangements and reviews how different arrangements, and especially gig activity, are captured in existing data. A challenge for understanding recent trends is that household survey and administrative data paint a different picture, with the former showing little evidence of the growth in self-employment that would be implied by a surge in gig activity and the latter providing evidence of considerable recent growth. An examination of matched individual-level survey and administrative records shows that a large and growing fraction of those with self-employment activity in administrative data have no such activity recorded in household survey data. The share of those with self-employment activity in household survey data but not administrative data is smaller and has not grown. Promising avenues for improving the measurement of self-employment activity include the addition of more probing questions to household survey questionnaires and the development of integrated data sets that combine survey, administrative and, potentially, private data.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aJ40 - General _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ46 - Informal Labor Markets _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aHaltiwanger, John C. _912289
700	1		_aSandusky, Kristin.
700	1		_aSpletzer, James R.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w24950.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w24950
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24950
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