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The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2021
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
with lower reporting thresholds to provide a more complete estimate of total platform work. Updating data through 2021 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287374
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many small businesses have closed, lost revenues, or downsized as a response to health and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. But, were economic losses in the pandemic disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435094
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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334502
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New Area- and Population-based Geographic Crosswalks for U.S. Counties and Congressional Districts, 1790–2020
Ferrara, Andreas; Testa, Patrick A.; Zhou, Liyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
counties. We construct population-based crosswalks for 1790 through 2020, which map county-level data across U.S. censuses, as … well as from counties to congressional districts. Using official census data for congressional districts, we show that … population-based weights outperform area-based ones in terms of similarity to official data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512060
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Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work : Evidence from California Tax Data
Bernhardt, Annette; Campos, Christopher; Prohofsky, Allen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361982
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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records … are a major driver of discrepancies between self-employment trends in self-reported and third-party reported data. Our … findings suggest caution is warranted before deferring to self-reported tax data over other data sources when measuring labor …
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