Education
Abstract Many people engage in self-employment, yet there exists a dearth of data on these arrangements. This paper addresses this gap by creating a novel dataset of self-employment roles to examine heterogeneity in self-employment arrangements. The approach uses non-public 2016 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data on employer names and locations and narrative descriptions of…
The brief’s key findings are: As the economy reopens, older workers – who are more at risk from COVID-19 – may be the last to return to work. The analysis, building on recent research, explores how many of these older workers can work from home. Perhaps surprisingly, older workers are as well situated as younger…
