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Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income

Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2019, 5 (5) 110-131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.06
Katharine G. Abraham
aProfessor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland
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bVice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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vol. 5 no. 5 110-131
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.06

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 4, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Abraham, Katharine G., and Susan N. Houseman. 2019. “Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(5): 110–31. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.06. We are grateful to Lillian Vesic-Petrovic for excellent research assistance and to Erica Groshen, Harry Holzer, two anonymous referees, and participants in the conference on Improving Employment and Earnings in Twenty-First Century Labor Markets for valuable suggestions on an earlier draft of this paper. Direct correspondence to: Katharine G. Abraham at kabraham@umd.edu, 1218 Lefrak Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; and Susan N. Houseman at houseman@upjohn.org, 300 S Westnedge Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49007. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Katharine G. Abrahama and
  2. Susan N. Housemanb
  1. aProfessor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland
  2. bVice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
  1. Correspondence authors:
    Katharine G. Abraham, (kabraham{at}umd.edu), Susan N. Houseman, (houseman{at}upjohn.org)
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