CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Gőbel, Nóra |
|---|---|
| Title | The Labor Market Effect of Crowdwork in India |
| Summary | Crowdwork refers to cases where the task is outsourced to the crowd, an undefined group of people via online labor platforms instead of a specific individual. The possibility of flexible work in terms of location and time is appealing to the workers, however, previous studies show a more negative impact of this work including low wages, skill mismatch, limited flexibility, lack of transparency, asymmetric access to data as well as the lack of regulation and social protection. Negative effects of crowdwork on wages have been measured in the USA and in the EU, but very few studies have looked at the labor market effects in the context of developing economies, and especially at the country level. Based on the ILO Crowdwork survey and the NSSO Periodic Labor Force Survey in India, this thesis compares the hourly wages of workers in digital labor platforms to those with similar characteristics in the traditional labor force and investigates whether working on microtask platforms has any effect on the workers’ earnings and working conditions. The results of the OLS and 2SLS models suggest that the microtask platforms lead to lower wages and more precarious working conditions in the country in 2017 when domestic work is used as an instrumental variable. This wage gap is even more prevalent among older workers as well as among crowdworkers who hold an additional job. |
| Supervisor | Akbar, Yusaf; Amara, Uma Rani |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/gobel_nora.pdf |
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