Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work?
Recent studies suggest we're not witnessing the dawn of a new gig economy. What accounts for the resilience of traditional employment?
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In recent months, a slew of studies has debunked predictions that we're witnessing the dawn of a new "gig economy." The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that there was actually a in the categories of jobs associated with the gig economy between 2005 and 2017. Larry Katz and the late Alan Krueger then revised that had originally found gig work was exploding. Instead, it had only grown modestly. Other economists ended up — and now the gig
