Trace 01
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: hours set at short notice and what the instrument still misses
How the CPS supplement frames contingent and alternative arrangements when schedules and side earnings arrive unevenly.
Shift Ledger
Independent notes on published research about uneven earnings, variable hours and how surveys record side income
A waveform desk for method: named sources, visible limits, and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
On this ledger
Three reading lines
Notes review published instruments and papers on irregular pay and hours set at short notice, not income playbooks.
Household surveys, administrative records and international measurement guidance are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
Shift Ledger does not publish testimonials, reviews or outcome stories. The desk describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
Library
Recent notes
Trace 02
Katz and Krueger on alternative work arrangements: levels, definitions and contested change
What the RAND–Princeton survey design measured, where estimates diverge from CPS, and why taxonomy still matters.
Trace 03
Abraham and colleagues: survey versus administrative traces of nontraditional earnings
Lessons from the survey–tax gap literature on undercount risk when side income sits outside main-job frames.
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