Institutionalizing Crowdwork as a Mode of Employment: The Case of Crowdworkers in Nigeria

Idowu, Ayomikun; Elbanna, Amany R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61687-8_4

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“…Because of the specific skill requirements in online freelancing, building longer-term relationships with workers who have done a good job in the past is often advantageous for requesters. Longer-term relationships between requesters and workers are therefore more common in online freelancing than for microtasks (Rani and Furrer 2019;Idowu and Elbanna 2021).…”

Section: Remuneration Of Crowdworkers and Work Processesmentioning

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Hourly Wages in Crowdworking: A Meta-Analysis

Hornuf

Vrankar

2022

Bus Inf Syst Eng

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In the past decade, crowdworking on online labor market platforms has become an important source of income for a growing number of people worldwide. This development has led to increasing political and scholarly interest in the wages people can earn on such platforms. This study extends the literature, which is often based on a single platform, region, or category of crowdworking, through a meta-analysis of prevalent hourly wages. After a systematic literature search, the paper considers 22 primary empirical studies, including 105 wages and 76,765 data points from 22 platforms, eight different countries, and 10 years. It is found that, on average, microtasks results in an hourly wage of less than $6. This wage is significantly lower than the mean wage of online freelancers, which is roughly three times higher when not factoring in unpaid work. Hourly wages accounting for unpaid work, such as searching for tasks and communicating with requesters, tend to be significantly lower than wages not considering unpaid work. Legislators and researchers evaluating wages in crowdworking need to be aware of this bias when assessing hourly wages, given that the majority of literature does not account for the effect of unpaid work time on crowdworking wages. To foster the comparability of different research results, the article suggests that scholars consider a wage correction factor to account for unpaid work. Finally, researchers should be aware that remuneration and work processes on crowdworking platforms can systematically affect the data collection method and inclusion of unpaid work.

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Section: Remuneration Of Crowdworkers and Work Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%