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  2. Independent contracting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between independent contractor and employee is an important one in the United States, as the costs for business owners to maintain employees are significantly higher than the costs associated with hiring independent contractors, due to federal and state requirements for employers to pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) and unemployment taxes on received income for ...

  3. Misclassification of employees as independent contractors

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    This was codified in revenue ruling 87–41, and is generally called "the twenty factor test". [3] [4] By contrast, if the worker controls the means and method of achieving the required results, leaving the employer with the right only to define the desired result, they are correctly classified as an independent contractor.

  4. Exogeny - Wikipedia

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    In an economic model, an exogenous change is one that comes from outside the model and is unexplained by the model. Such changes of an economic model from outside factors can include the influence of technology, in which this had previously been noted as an exogenous factor, but has rather been noted as a factor that can depict economic forces as a whole. [1]

  5. Work for hire - Wikipedia

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    The first situation applies only when the work's creator is an employee, not an independent contractor. [1] The determination of whether an individual is an employee for the purposes of the work made for hire doctrine is determined under the common law of agency, [ 1 ] in which a court looks to a multitude of factors to determine whether an ...

  6. Independent contractor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    An Independent contractor is a type of worker. Independent contractor may also refer to: Independent contracting in the United States; Independent Contractors Australia; Misclassification of employees as independent contractors

  7. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    The "independent contractor" category was estimated to remove protection from 8 million workers. [263] While many states have higher rates, the US has an 11.1 per cent unionization rate and 12.3 per cent rate of coverage by collective agreement. This is the lowest in the industrialized world. [264]

  8. Contingent work - Wikipedia

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    Contingent work, casual work, gig work or contract work, is an employment relationship with limited job security, payment on a piece work basis, typically part-time (typically with variable hours) that is considered non-permanent.

  9. Exogenous and endogenous variables - Wikipedia

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    In an economic model, an exogenous variable is one whose measure is determined outside the model and is imposed on the model, and an exogenous change is a change in an exogenous variable. [1]: p. 8 [2]: p. 202 [3]: p. 8 In contrast, an endogenous variable is a variable whose measure is determined by the model. An endogenous change is a change ...