Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Conceptual perspectives and approaches -- 2 Job instability, precarity, informality, and inequality: labour in the gig economy -- 3...

National Statistical Offices face a growing policy demand for better statistics on digital platform employment and work. New statistical definitions are needed to avoid undercounting the number of people involved in these jobs. In addition, new sources of data, including non-official ones, may...

Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...