Category: Online Labour Index

The pandemic depresses online labour markets, but some countries are bouncing back – Insights from South Korea, Germany, and the United States

21 April 2020 0

In our last iLabour blog post we looked at the response of online labour markets to the COVID-19 pandemic and realised that the downscaling effect might be dominating over the distancing effect: Demand for online work diminishes, as companies are facing declining revenues and reduce non-essential spending, including external contractors. The global demand for online… Read More »

The Exception to the Rule – Why Russia Demands more Online Jobs in Tech

4 March 2020 0

In general, a striking feature of the geography of online labour utilisation is the similarity of occupational demand profiles of leading employer countries. The fact that national online labour demand profiles resemble each other suggests that demand largely comes from the same industry within each country: the information technology sector, generally speaking. However, there are… Read More »

What have we learned from the market for Online Labour? [3/3] Homogeneous demand across countries

24 August 2018 0

This September marks the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Online Labour Index, the experimental economic indicator on the utilisation of online labour. This is the final in the series of blog posts describing what we have learned from the data. The paper accompanying the Online Labour Index was just accepted for publication in… Read More »

What have we learned from the market for Online Labour? [2/3] Volatility of labour demand across occupations

20 August 2018 0

This September marks the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Online Labour Index, the experimental economic indicator on the utilisation of online labour. This is the second in the series of blog posts describing what we have learned from the data. The paper accompanying the Online Labour Index was just accepted for publication in… Read More »