As shown in Figure 2, the size of the two groups is affected by such a change with the group of self-employed increasing and the group of employees shrinking in size.2 As there are now more individuals in the economy that earn the lower earnings of self-employed, the median earnings of the entire population decrease. In the example shown in Figure 2, median earnings decrease by 3, from 36 to 33. The constant cannot easily be interpreted in the case of UQRs and is therefore not shown in the figure.