Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment
研究发现税收数据中自雇就业增长显著,但当前人口调查的年度社会与经济补充数据未能捕捉这一趋势,且差距持续扩大,部分源于调查中自雇就业被误报为工资工作。
Good information on self-employment is needed to inform the ongoing discussion of the rise of the gig economy and its implications for workers. Tax data show significant growth in self-employment not captured in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS-ASEC). The growing gap reflects both self-employment in tax data missing from the CPS-ASEC and self-employment misreported as wage and salary work. We document consistent patterns in the discrepancies between the tax and survey data but are able to explain only a modest share of the growing disagreement between them.