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Title: Business Income Dynamics and Labor Market Fluidity

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

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DOI: 10.2478/izajole-2021-0004

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Abstract: The share of the U.S. population that receives business income has increased substantially in recent decades. At the same time, worker hire and separation rates have declined, with worrying implications for productivity and wage growth. In this paper, we explore the relationship between business income (BI) receipt and labor reallocation. We show that BI recipients are largely excluded from existing measures of labor reallocation. Including BI recipients reduces the measured decline from 1994 to 2014 in the hire and separation rates by 8.3 to 8.7 percent, respectively, primarily among jobs that were secondary sources of income or short in duration. We present evidence that worker transitions between wage and salary jobs and BI represent labor reallocation, as opposed to reclassification of employees as independent contractors.

Url: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajole-2021-0004

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Authors: Hyatt, Henry; Murray, Seth; Sandusky, Kristin

Periodical (Full): Journal of Labour Economics

Issue: 1

Volume: 10

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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