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Title: An Examination of Health Care Workers in Nonstandard Work Arrangements and Self-Employment
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: Health care was found to be one of two industries (the other being education) that experienced the fastest growth in nonstandard work arrangements (i.e., work arrangements other than full-time, year-round) between 1995 and 2015.1 The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) definition of nonstandard work arrangements (referred to as nontraditional work arrangements by the US Government Accountability Office) includes overlapping concepts of: 1) contingent work (based on self-employment status, length of work, method of payment, and connection to employer), 2) alternative work (i.e., temporary agency worker, on-call worker, contract company worker, and independent contractor), and 3) electronically-mediated work (sometimes referred to as “gig work”).2,3 Nonstandard work arrangements as well as self-employment alone are not new in health care. Not well-documented is which health care occupations are frequently involved in these work arrangements, and the characteristics of these workers, a gap which this study aims to address. This study used data from the Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) that was fielded in May 2017 by the US Census Bureau for the BLS. Using BLS definitions, we examined health care workers across three work arrangements: 1) self-employment, 2) contingent work, and 3) alternative work. We did not analyze health care workers involved in electronically-mediated work given BLS concerns about false positives in the survey responses.4
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Authors: Jopson, Andrew D; Frogner, Bianca K
Publisher: Center for Health Workforce Studies
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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