We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in the gig economy and examine to what degree gender differences in job application strategy could account for the gap. With a large-scale dataset from a leading online labor market, we show that females only earn around 81.4% of the hourly wage of...

Monitoring, a digital surveillance technology that allows employers to track the activities of workers, is ubiquitous in the gig economy where workforce is distributed. However, workers are often reluctant to be monitored due to privacy concerns, resulting in a hidden economic cost for employers...