Replication data for: The Rise of the Gig Economy: Fact or Fiction?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Katharine G. Abraham; John Haltiwanger; Kristin Sandusky; James Spletzer

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Project Citation:

Abraham, Katharine G., Haltiwanger, John, Sandusky, Kristin, and Spletzer, James. Replication data for: The Rise of the Gig Economy: Fact or Fiction? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116467V1

Project Description

Summary: Gig work mediated through online platforms has received much recent attention. We find only one sector—the transportation services sector—in which there is unambiguous evidence of substantial and rapidly growing gig activity. A challenge for tracking and understanding the rise in gig activity is that core household surveys are missing the recent overall rise in self-employment that is apparent in administrative and private sector transactions data. We show that this limitation of available household survey data is evident even in the transportation services sector, where the growth in self-employment activity since 2013 has been exponential.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J23 Labor Demand
      L84 Personal, Professional, and Business Services

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