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Breaking Down the Freelance Economy

Harvard Business Review

million of the 53 million freelancers counted in the survey are “moonlighters” (people with full-time jobs doing independent work in their spare time). million and 34% is more than 31%, but the two surveys weren’t exactly counting the same people (moonlighters, for example, aren’t contingent workers). This new survey of 5,052 U.S.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

The BLS gets its self-employment totals from the Current Population Survey , a.k.a. the household survey, a monthly quiz of 60,000 American households conducted by the Census Bureau (this is the same survey that generates the unemployment rate). “The household survey is really good,” continues King.

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