Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Commons^™

Seriously?: Estimates Of Gig Work Dependence Vary With Question Wording, Alice M. Brawley Newlin

Management Faculty Publications

In this presentation, Brawley Newlin examines whether "gig" workers respond differently to questions about their dependence on gig income based on question wording and/or based on objective dependence measures (e.g., number of dependent children, hours worked in the gig). Results show that about half of the variability in responses is due to question wording, and half is due to more objective dependence factors.