Ticket 01
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: how alternative arrangements are hung beside the main job frame
What the CWS asks about contingent and alternative work, and where secondary earnings can sit outside the hanging slots.
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Independent notes on how published research hangs secondary earnings and platform work onto household income measurement frames
A job-ticket rail for method: named sources, visible limits, and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
Rail · Ticket set A · Sep 2026
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Three hanging lines
Tickets review published instruments and papers on secondary jobs, platform-mediated work and how household surveys file those flows—not income playbooks.
Household surveys, administrative records and international measurement guidance are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
Cliprail does not publish testimonials, reviews or outcome stories. The rail describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
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Ticket 02
OECD pilots on platform work: definitions that must hold before a count is clipped to the rail
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Ticket 03
Katz and Krueger: survey design when alternative work arrangements reshape measured employment
Lessons from alternative-arrangement survey design when nontraditional earnings appear unevenly across instruments.
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