Tag: digital economy

4 November 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

You’ve probably heard at least two things about the gig economy. First, that it’s big. In 2019, roughly one-in-10 workers in the UK earns a living in the gig ... Read More How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps by Professor Mark Graham

29 October 2019

Authors: Mark Malbas

Should cities be run like businesses? Should city services and infrastructure be run by businesses? For some urban commentators, policy-makers, politicians and corporate lobby groups, the answer is ‘yes’ ... Read More New book: How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables

25 October 2019

Authors: Gina Neff

The growth of online marketplaces has led to an explosion of a new type of advertisement with potential tenants being asked for just more than their monthly rent. Online ... Read More Professor Gina Neff on the rise of online advertising for non-monetary rent arrangements in the online markeplace

17 October 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

The Fairwork Foundation – an organisation supported by the OII – is delighted to announce the release of our first major report, The Five Pillars of Fairwork. This report ... Read More Fairwork Foundation’s First Annual Report Released!

4 June 2019

Authors: Sara Spinks

Tens of millions of people across the world now find work through digital platforms. From Brazil and India, to South Africa and the United States, platform workers are organising, ... Read More Fairwork project releases latest digital platform scores

8 March 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

  A network that I am part of – the The Future of Work in Developing Countries initiative – has just put out a new publication titled ‘The Future ... Read More The Future of Work in the Global South

16 February 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

  This month, I started work on a new project together with my new colleague Jamie Woodcock: The Fairwork Foundation. With generous funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation ... Read More Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

  I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the ... Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

  I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the ... Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

10 January 2018

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day. What constraints do ... Read More Flexibility in the gig economy: How workers manage time on online piecework platforms

7 September 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

This is a guest article written by OII doctoral candidate Godofredo Ramizo Jr., who is researching the socio-political impact of ride apps in Southeast Asian megacities. Uber and other ... Read More How Uber is changing transportation in Southeast Asia – and with what lessons for Europe

29 August 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online labour platforms allow companies to source work from freelancers over the Internet on an on-demand basis. We know that this phenomenon grew about 26 percent globally over the ... Read More How the world’s largest companies use online freelancing platforms: New report

14 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

Our new Online Labour Index worker map provides a real-time measurement of the online gig economy by revealing where different types of jobs are taking place. To our knowledge, ... Read More Comparing the OLI Worker Map to other studies on online work supply

12 July 2017

Authors: Ralph Straumann

The previous post in this mini-series, Who can access the internet?, looked at internet penetration in country context. In this post, we compare world regions and their access to ... Read More World regions’ access to the internet

11 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index top occupation by country, 1-6 July 2017 The Internet has created a global market for digitally delivered freelance work, which is currently growing rapidly. Our new ... Read More Where are online workers located? The international division of digital gig work

11 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

As more and more tasks and projects are transacted via online platforms and apps, national governments and statistical agencies face increasing challenges in tracking the growth of this phenomenon. ... Read More Measuring the supply of digital labour: How the OLI worker supplement is constructed

10 July 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

Our second pamphlet ‘Towards a Fairer Gig Economy’ is now out on Meatspace Press. We are pleased to offer it for free download (pdf, epub, azw3, mobi), as a ... Read More Towards a Fairer Gig Economy