The W.E. Upjohn Institute hosts the 3rd IZA Labor Statistics Workshop: Contract Work on July 23–24, 2019. Various forms of contingent work are assumed to be a growing phenomenon in developed economies across the globe, but the extent of its use—and whether its use is growing—is somewhat unclear. This workshop includes presentations from a worldwide roster of experts who will be presenting the latest research on the use of a range of alternative work arrangements. Included are:
- "The What and How of Measuring Electronically Mediated Work: A Review of Different Countries' and Private Organizations' Experiences", Anne Polivka (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- "Measuring the Crowdworking Sector in Germany – New Evidence from an Online Panel", Oliver Serfling (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences)
- "Online Labor Index: Measuring the Online Gig Economy for Policy and Research", Otto Kässi (University of Oxford), Vili Lehdonvirta (University of Oxford)
- "Peer-to-Peer Rentals in Government Statistics", Rachel Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis), James R. Spletzer (U.S. Census Bureau and IZA), Kristin Sandusky (U.S. Census Bureau)
- "Improving Measures of Contract Work in Household Surveys: Evidence from a Gallup Survey", Katharine G. Abraham (University of Maryland and IZA), Brad J. Hershbein (Upjohn Institute and IZA), Susan Houseman (Upjohn Institute and IZA)
- "The Size and Characteristics of Informal (“Gig”) Work in Canada", Olena Kostyshyna (Bank of Canada), Corinne Luu (Bank of Canada)
- "Why Choose Alternative Work Arrangements?: The Effect of Demand Shocks on AWAs in the U.S. Labor Market", Daniel Mark Deibler (Columbia University
- "The Third Worker: Assessing the Trade-off Between Employees and Contractors", Pedro S. Martins (Queen Mary, University of London and IZA)
- "Non-Standard Employment: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs", Kyung Min Lee (George Mason University), J. David Brown (U.S. Census Bureau and IZA), John S. Earle (George Mason University and IZA)
- Keynote Address – David Weil (Dean and Professor of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University)
- "The Cyclicality of the Stepping-Stone Effect of Temporary Agency Employment", Elke J. Jahn (University of Bayreuth and IZA), Michael Rosholm (Aarhus University and IZA)
- "Identifying the Wage Penalty in the Labor Broker Sector: Evidence for South Africa Using Administrative Tax Records", Aalia Cassim (National Treasury, Republic of South Africa)
- "Involuntary Unemployment and the Labor Market Returns to Interim Jobs", Bernhard Schmidpeter (University of Essex)
- "Are Working Conditions of Contract Workers Always Bad? Firm Level Evidence on Contracting Out", Angelika Ganserer (ZEW Mannheim), Melanie Arntz (ZEW Mannheim), Michael F. Maier (ZEW Mannheim), Stephan Lothar Thomsen (Leibniz University Hannover and IZA)
- "The “Gig Economy” and Independent Contracting: Evidence from California Tax Data on Prevalence and Incomes" Annette Bernhardt (University of California, Berkeley), Allen Prohofsky (California Franchise Tax Board), Jesse Rothstein (University of California, Berkley and IZA)
- "Has the Gig Economy Replaced Traditional Jobs Over the Last Two Decades? Evidence from Tax Returns", Andrew Lewis Garin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Brett Collins (Internal Revenue Service), Emilie Jackson (Stanford University), Dimitri Koustas (University of Chicago), Mark Payne (Internal Revenue Service)
- "Measuring the Gig Economy in Canada Using Administrative and Survey Data", Yuri Ostrovsky (Statistics Canada), Sung-Hee Jeon (Statistics Canada), Huju Liu (Statistics Canada)
A detailed schedule is available here.
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