Using earnings history to characterize quality of nonemployee employment

We use the 2014 and 2018 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to map out the prevalence of employee and nonemployee earnings among workers. Employee earnings are from a job or incorporated business, while nonemployee earnings are from an unincorporated business or other work arrangement. We devise a typology of workers based on the composition of their earnings from employee and nonemployee sources; describe workers of each type along dimensions of demographics, financial well-being, and beneficiary status; and use regressions to identify key predictors of earnings’ sources. Kathryn Anne Edwards and Daniel Schwam, "Using earnings history to characterize quality of nonemployee employment," Monthly Labor Review, U.S.