Making room for micro-entrepreneurs in the sharing economy
Clip: 10/10/2014 | 7m 17s
Hospitality website Airbnb helps turn empty guest rooms into makeshift hotel rooms.
The growing American "share economy" makes use of people's preexisting and underutilized assets and time. Hospitality website Airbnb helps turn empty guest rooms into makeshift hotel rooms. But what happens to actual hotels and bed and breakfasts that have to conform to greater regulation and charge higher prices? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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Making room for micro-entrepreneurs in the sharing economy
Clip: 10/10/2014 | 7m 17s
The growing American "share economy" makes use of people's preexisting and underutilized assets and time. Hospitality website Airbnb helps turn empty guest rooms into makeshift hotel rooms. But what happens to actual hotels and bed and breakfasts that have to conform to greater regulation and charge higher prices? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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