This article reviews the economic literature on informality, its causes, and its consequences
for development. It covers a comprehensive body of research that ranges from well-identified …

The authors produce estimates for a new and better rate of underemployment for 25
countries using the European Labor Force Survey that is based on workers' reports of their …

Measuring the economy during COVID-19 has created a set of hurdles and prospects for the
US statistical agencies, the private sector, and academia. This included how to deal with …

Though economists have examined labor displacement due to digitization, few have
considered the new work and value created. Unlike employment relations that brought …

This paper presents survey measures of informal" gig" work in the United States along both
the extensive and intensive margins. Focusing on labor-intensive activities, the total amount …

While post-Fordism and neo-liberalism changed the way labour was viewed, technology
and wide spread digitization has built upon the same principles, giving way to a new form of …

The official US unemployment rate is an inadequate measure of labor market conditions.
This poses a major challenge for basic research and for successful economic policy. In this …

Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes
have changed in the United States over the last few decadesâ€" in some ways …

Take a software engineer and an Uber driver, a data scientist and an author selfpublished
on Amazon, a marketing specialist and an Etsy seller–what do all they have in common …

Purpose Digital platforms that offer on-demand gig work, while providing work opportunities
in the economy, have raised social and economic concerns. Though extensive research on …