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The Changing Nature of Work
The Changing Nature of Work
Susan N. Houseman
,
Anne Polivka
&
Ayşegül Şahin
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These are preliminary drafts and may not have been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. This page will be updated as the book is revised.
CONFERENCE HELD
March 6-7, 2025
PUBLISHER
: University of Chicago Press
Series
: Studies in Income and Wealth
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:
Introduction to "The Changing Nature of Work"
Author(s):
Susan N. Houseman
,
Anne E. Polivka
&
Ayşegül Şahin
Chapter 2:
The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies: Evidence from US Labor Markets
Author(s):
Ekaterina Prytkova
& Fabien Petit
Chapter 3:
What Makes Work from Home Work? Evidence on Telework and Worker Tasks
Author(s):
Nicole Nestoriak
& David H. Oh
Chapter 4:
Tapping Business and Household Surveys to Sharpen Our View of Work from Home
Author(s):
José Maria Barrero
,
Nicholas Bloom
,
Kathryn Bonney
,
Cory Breaux
,
Catherine Buffington
,
Steven J. Davis
,
Lucia Foster
,
Brian McKenzie,
Keith Savage
&
Cristina Tello-Trillo
et al. (View all)
Chapter 5:
Using Mobile Device Activity Data to Study Local Variation in Onsite Work
Author(s):
Katharine G. Abraham
,
Mohammad Ashoori
,
Aref Darzi
,
Nathalie Gonzalez-Prieto
,
John C. Haltiwanger
,
Aliakbar Kabiri
&
Erkut Y. Ozbay
Chapter 6:
The Changing Nature of Work: What Can We Learn From Time Use Diaries?
Author(s):
Francesca Foliano,
Rebecca Riley
,
Mechelle Viernes
& Lynsey Brown
Chapter 7:
The Rise of the Contract Workforce in US Manufacturing
Author(s):
Matthew Dey
&
Susan Houseman
Chapter 8:
The What and How of Measuring Digital Platform Work
Author(s):
Anne E. Polivka
Chapter 9:
The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012–2023
Author(s):
Andrew Garin
,
Emilie Jackson
,
Dmitri Koustas
&
Alicia Miller
Chapter 10:
Understanding the Online Platform Based “Gig” Workforce in the US: Evidence from the Entrepreneurship in the Population Survey
Author(s):
Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins,
Quentin Brummet
& Katie Johnson
Chapter 11:
Understanding Self-Employment Trajectories over the Life Course in the United States
Author(s):
Joelle Abramowitz
& Andrew Joung
Chapter 12:
Business Owners and the Self-Employed: Thirty-Three Million (And Counting!)
Author(s):
Christopher Goetz
,
Henry Hyatt
,
Zachary Kroff
,
Kristin Sandusky
&
Martha Stinson
Chapter 13:
How Do Workers Think About The Costs and Benefits of Freelance Work? New Evidence From a Survey Experiment
Author(s):
Edward Freeland,
Andrew Garin
&
Dmitri Koustas
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