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The global polarisation of remote work
Fabian Braesemann, Fabian Stephany, Ole Teutloff +3
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of remote work with consequences for the global division of work. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it could also increase spa…
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world's remote freelancing market
Fabian Stephany, Otto Kässi, Uma Rani +1
The Online Labour Index (OLI) was launched in 2016 to measure the global utilisation of online freelance work at scale. Five years after its creation, the OLI has become a point of…
The Future of Employment Revisited: How Model Selection Determines Automation Forecasts
Fabian Stephany, Hanno Lorenz
The uniqueness of human labour is at question in times of smart technologies. The 250 years-old discussion on technological unemployment reawakens. Prominently, Frey and Osborne (2…
How Many Online Workers are there in the World? A Data-Driven Assessment
Otto Kässi, Vili Lehdonvirta, Fabian Stephany
An unknown number of people around the world are earning income by working through online labour platforms such as Upwork and Amazon Mechanical Turk. We combine data collected from…