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Online labor markets for professional knowledge work is growing 30% a year. Established intermediaries, brokers and staffing agencies should be concerned about this, according to Dr. Gretta Corporaal\u00a0(Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford). \u201cWhen the media reports about the gig economy of platform labor, they often talk about low-skilled, low-paid platform labor, such as at\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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\r\n What have we learned from the market for Online Labour? [2\/3] Volatility of labour demand across occupations<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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\r\n New publication \u2013 Online Labour Index: Measuring the Online Gig Economy for Policy and Research<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":5}