Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

By Lawrence F. Katz, Alan B. Krueger. RSF, 2019

130 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article discusses trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey (CWS) supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey, and administrative tax data from the Internal Revenue Service for 2000 to 2016. Based on cyclically adjusted comparisons of the CPS CWS, measures using self-respondents in the CPS CWS, and measures of self-employment and 1099 workers from administrative tax data, we conclude that there has likely been a modest upward trend in the share of the U.S. workforce in alternative work arrangements during the 2000s. We also present evidence from Amazon Mechanical Turk suggesting that the basic monthly CPS question on multiple job holding misses many instances of multiple job holding.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/864dd21ccbf2de38cb0ebb13b65b04e31c4b09c9

Citations in the corpus

• Job Seeking: The Process and Experience of Looking for a Job (2020, unknown): “Evidence suggests that most people engaged in gig work are doing so as a supplement to more stable work (Katz & Krueger 2019).”