Posts tagged: social datascience

How is online work classified in the OLI?

21 September 2016 0

The Online Labour Index  is an index measuring the changes in the volume of projects transacted in major online platforms. As a part of OLI, we also report a breakdown across different occupations. In this post I will discuss how the occupation classification used in the OLI is constructed. In order to classify the work done… Read More »

How the Online Labour Index is constructed

18 September 2016 0

The Online Labour Index is an index that measures the utilization of online labour platforms over time and across countries and occupations. Online labour platforms are here understood as platforms through which buyers and sellers of labour or services transact fully digitally. That is, we require that the worker and employer are matched digitally, the… Read More »