Working paper
Labor standards and the reorganization of work: gaps in data and research
Publisher
Employment
Underemployment
Research
Future of work
Wage inequality
Independent contractors
Task economy
Gig economy
Regulatory standards
Regulatory instruments
United States of America
Description
A common but understudied argument is that the reorganization of work has contributed to the deterioration of labor standards in the US over the past four decades. Yet an analysis of existing aggregate data does not show a strong, unambiguous increase in key measures of nonstandard work. This paper therefore identifies data gaps and research questions that need to be answered, in order to better understand trends in workplace restructuring during the era of growing wage inequality
Publication Details
Copyright:
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment 2014
License type:
All Rights Reserved
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
28 Nov 2018