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

Katharine G. Abraham; Susan N. Houseman

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.06

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 5 110-131

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.06

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online November 4, 2019.

© 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.

Author Information

Katharine G. Abraham^a and
Susan N. Houseman^b

^aProfessor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland
^bVice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research