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Quantity and quality of work in the platform economy

Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Cirillo, … - 2019

This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers). It first discusses to what extent labour platform can be treated as two-sided or multi-sided markets, and...

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The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...

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Canadian Small Businesses’ Employees and Owners during COVID-19

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...

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The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

We describe how ethnic disparities in the labor market between prime aged Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men have evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains...

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The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis

Guarascio, Dario; Piccirillo, Alessandro; Reljic, Jelena - 2024

unemployment may be exaggerated or not yet empirically supported. While this does not preclude that robots will be capable of …

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Artificial Intelligence and Employment: A Look into the Crystal Ball

Guarascio, Dario; Reljic, Jelena; Stöllinger, Roman - 2023

This study provides evidence of the employment impact of AI exposure in European regions, addressing one of the many gaps in the emerging literature on AI's effects on employment in Europe. Building upon the occupation-based AI-exposure indicators proposed by Felten et al. (2018, 2019, 2021),...

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What drives employment-unemployment transitions? Evidence from Italian task-based data

Cassandro, Nicola; Centra, Marco; Esposito, Piero; … - 2020

evidence of the determinants of unemployment risk in Italy. We find that workers employed in routine-intensive occupations … (measured with the RTI proposed by Acemoglu and Autor, 2011) do not display – on average - higher unemployment risks than the …. Finally, the distribution of unemployment risk and its relation with routine-task intensity varies significantly across …

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