The rise of the “gig economy” has attracted wide attention from both scholars and the
popular media. Much of this attention has been devoted to jobs mediated through various …

The Online Labour Index (OLI) was launched in 2016 to measure the global utilisation of
online freelance work at scale. Five years after its creation, the OLI has become a point of …

This article discusses trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using
data from the Contingent Worker Survey (CWS) supplements to the Current Population …

While the gig economy has expanded rapidly in the last decade, few have studied the
psychological ramifications of working for an online labor platform. Guided by classical and …

We examine the universe of tax returns in order to reconcile seemingly contradictory facts
about the rise of alternative work arrangements in the United States. Focusing on workers in …

This article uses data from a natural experiment to address one of the most contentious
issues in the on-demand platform economy—whether gig work is compatible with standard …

Digitalization is the core component of future development in the 4.0 industrial era. It
represents a powerful mechanism for enhancing the sustainable competitiveness of …

This article introduces the Special Issue on “Technology and the Labor Market”. We
summarize the included articles and offer some lessons for policy and future research. The …

Gig work mediated through online platforms has received much recent attention. We find
only one sector--the transportation services sector--in which there is unambiguous evidence …

The authors investigate the relationship between platform work engagement and worker
mental health on the basis of two nationally representative samples of Canadian workers …