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Online Retailing, Self-Employment Disrupt Inflation


Abstract: The employment status of increasing numbers of workers has become contingent in recent years—that is, there is greater freelance, or “gig,” employment. This development has coincided over the past two decades with an era of increasing online commerce that provides consumers a wider array of products and services at competitive prices.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Source: Dallas Fed Economics

Publication Date: 2019-04-16