Flexible employment: Composition and trends

Journal of Labor Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 525-542

  Segal, Lewis M ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0038877876     PISSN: 01953613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02685797     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See Gloria P. Green, "Comparing Employment Estimates from Household and Payroll Surveys," Monthly Labor Review 92 (December 1969), pp. 9-20, for a discussion of the two surveys.
2. See Anne E. Polivka and Thomas Nardone, "On the Definition of Contingent Work," Monthly Labor Review 112 (December 1989), pp. 9-16, for a discussion of the term contingent work and related measurement issues.
3. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Report 900, Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements, summarizes the survey and presents initial findings. Public use versions of the data are scheduled for release in early 1996. Chapter 1 of Report on the American Workforce, U.S. Department of Labor, 1995, also provides a thorough discussion of the survey.
4. A possible explanation for the cyclicality difference between PSS employment and self-employment is a greater ability to adjust hours within the later category. Section IV discusses hours of work for these types of employment.
5. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Bulletin 2313, Industry Wage Survey: Temporary Help Supply September 1987 and Bulletin 2430, Industry Wage Survey: Help Supply Services provide additional information on wages and benefits. See Lewis M. Segal and Daniel G. Sullivan, "The Temporary Labor Force," Economic Perspectives 19 (March/April 1995), pp. 2-19, for a more thorough discussion of wage rates for the PSS sample of workers discussed herein.
6. Finis Welch, "Matching the Current Population Surveys," Stata Technical Bulletin, No STB-12, March 1993, discusses the matching methodology. The direction of possible bias from examining the transitions of nonmovers is ambiguous; both positive and negative events are likely to induce mobility. This style of analysis is also susceptible to measurement error due to misreporting of employment status.