How do households with low and uncertain incomes cope with risk and strive to make ends meet?

A response is needed to the numerous issues spurred by the expansion of the gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs. In this context of the exponential growth of the digital economy and underlying business models the largest nationwide study of its kind into the impact of the working...

Since its introduction in the late 2000s, there has been growing interest in sharing economy platforms. To explain outcomes, scholars have taken two main approaches—institutionalism, which focuses on employment classification and precarious labor, and technological control via algorithms. Both predict relatively similar outcomes for workers.

The purpose of the Aspen Institute Initiative on the Future of Work is to propose a new course – a way to upgrade America’s economic reward structure to keep pace with the shifting realities of the 21st century. As we did in the last century, we must come together to forge a new economic model...

Survivors of domestic and family violence—the majority of whom are women—experience a range of negative economic outcomes as a consequence of the violence they have survived. This is particularly prevalent for women where economic abuse was also part of the pattern of violence. Lack of financial resources makes leaving a violent relationship challenging for survivors...