The March Review.(labor market)(Brief Article) From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: March 1, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Even after the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it is clear that new technologies and new organizational paradigms have contributed to the increasing adoption of new working arrangements. This issue of the Review explores the growing incidence and impact of strategies ranging from contingent work to flextime.

Steven Hipple reports on the persistence of contingent employment even as general labor market conditions improved. The unemployment rate, for example, dropped nearly a full percentage point between February 1997 and February 1999, but the contingency rate--the proportion ...

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