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Building the Online Labour Index

Online Labour Index
Otto Kassi 25 February 2016 0

“While it may seem trivial if, for example, a housewife spends ten minutes filling out an online survey for a dollar, if there are millions such housewives, spending hundreds of thousands of hours filling out surveys for millions of dollars, it becomes an important contribution to the measure of labor input in the market research… Read More: Building the Online Labour Index »

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