FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accounting and Data Foundations -- 3 Home Production -- 4 The Role of the Family in the Production of Human Capital -- 5 Education -- 6 Health -- 7 The Government and Private Nonprofit Sectors -- 8 The Environment --...

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings...

Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more...