EXPLORING THE HETEROGENEITY IN THE EMPLOYMENT MEDIATED BY DIGITAL PLATFORMS: INTENSITY AND LOCATION
Abstract
This article analyses the digital platform work in contrast to the traditional forms
of employment by using data from 14 European countries, exploring what kind of socioeconomic
and working conditions these group of crowdworkers have. Furthermore, we
explore if the intensity of this new form of employment is higher for some types of tasks, for
some groups of workers or in some countries, with the aim of reducing the size of the pixelgrid
compared to previous studies. Our empirical analysis seems to suggest that previous
stylized facts linked to demographic, educational and labour aspects which are common in
the related previous literature can be qualified when different forms of heterogeneity are
taken into account. Especially noticeable are the analysis of these factors when we
distinguish among digital workers in terms of both main activity and the via used for
providing the service: on-web vs. on-location.
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