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The Online Platform Economy in 2018 : Drivers, Workers, Sellers, and Lessors

Farrell, Diana - 2018

Just a decade ago, the Online Platform Economy comprised a handful of marketplaces connecting independent sellers to buyers of physical goods. Today, many consumers use online platforms to procure almost any kind of good or service. Have these innovations created new viable options for making a...

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Did Internet Kill the Retail Trade Star? Using Google Trends to Estimate the Impact of E-Commerce on Retail Employment

Vitt, David - 2017

Within-state variation in the search frequency for “amazon” at Google is used to measure the industry specific impact of e-commerce on retail employment. To instrument for exogenous variation in e-commerce exposure, I rely on random variation in consumer's use of the Internet for tasks like...

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The Online Platform Economy in 27 Metro Areas : The Experience of Drivers and Lessors

Farrell, Diana - 2019

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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...

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Bridging the Gap : How Families Use the Online Platform Economy to Manage their Cash Flow

Farrell, Diana - 2019

more available. In this report, we leverage the JPMorgan Chase Institute Online Platform Economy data set, which tracks …

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The Online Platform Economy Through the Pandemic

Greig, Fiona; Sullivan, Daniel M - 2021

benefits. This research leverages de-identified administrative data from a universe of 30 million Chase deposit account …

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Working conditions on digital labour platforms : evidence from a leading labour supply economy

Aleksynska, Mariya; Bastrakova, Anastasia; Kharchenko, … - 2019

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Online Crowds - Extraordinary Mass Behavior on the Internet

Russ, Chris - 2018

In this paper a novel form of online users, the “Online Crowds,” is described. “Online Crowds” gather virtually, behave and act collectively and produce effects and phenomena which would not be possible without the Internet [Hof 05]. A remarkable example is “The Million Dollar...

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Content Marketplaces As Digital Labour Platforms : Towards Accountable Algorithmic Management and Decent Work for Content Creators

Silberman, M. Six; Rakshita, Sangh; Abraha, Halefom H.; … - 2023

YouTube is probably the world’s largest digital labour platform. YouTube creators report similar decent work deficits as other platform workers: economic and psychosocial impacts from opaque, error-prone algorithmic management; no collective bargaining; and possible employment...

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Data Brokers Co-Opetition

Gu, Yiquan - 2019

Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to … downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co …-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with the combined value lower than the sum of the values of the two datasets, data brokers …

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