Stub 01
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: secondary-job fields beside the primary pass
What the CWS asks about contingent and alternative work, and where secondary earnings can sit outside the gate openings.
Ridge Pass
Independent notes on how published research maps secondary earnings and platform work onto household income measurement frames
A lift-ticket desk for method: named sources, visible limits, and no assumption about any reader’s circumstances.
Stub · Gate A · Sep 2026
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Three fare gates
Notes 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.
Ridge Pass does not publish testimonials, reviews or outcome stories. The desk describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
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Stub 02
OECD pilots on platform work: definitions that must hold before a count enters the fare gate
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Stub 03
Katz and Krueger: survey design when alternative arrangements reshape measured employment
Lessons from alternative-arrangement survey design when nontraditional earnings appear unevenly across instruments.
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Method notes about how published research and survey instruments map secondary earnings and platform work onto household income frames.
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