Posts tagged: microwork

EU countries are rolling out systems to tax income from the platform economy

27 April 2020 0

Income earned through gig apps, freelancing platforms, letting platforms, and other digital intermediaries presents big challenges for taxation and social insurance. People should voluntarily report income from these sources to authorities, but in practice this doesn’t always happen. For instance, only 69 taxpayers reported income from Uber and Bolt in Estonia in 2016, even though… Read More: EU countries are rolling out systems to tax income from… »

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?… »

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: What have we learned from the market for Online Labour?… »

What have we learned from the market for Online Labour [1/3]: The growth of online labour

10 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 first 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… »

New publication – Online Labour Index: Measuring the Online Gig Economy for Policy and Research

10 August 2018 0

The impacts of technological change on jobs have been a topic of much interest over recent decades. Existing economic statistics are in general prone to mismeasuring the value of digital activities and investments, because these are often not directly related to production, but to development, design, and marketing, whose value is harder to establish. Existing… Read More: New publication – Online Labour Index: Measuring the Online Gig… »

Flexibility in the gig economy: How workers manage time on online piecework platforms

10 January 2018 0

Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day. What constraints do workers face when attempting to exercise this flexibility in practice, and how can platform design influence this? I have just posted on SSRN a new paper… Read More: Flexibility in the gig economy: How workers manage time on… »