Paychecks, Paydays, and the Online Platform Economy: Big Data on Income Volatility

By Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig. 2016

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The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995–2015 (2016, background): “5 percent of workers indicated in late 2015 that they were working through an online intermediary, such as Uber or Task Rabbit, consistent with estimates derived by Harris and Krueger (2015) from Google search data and Farrell and Greig (2016a) from bank deposits.”
An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners in the United States (2018, background): “Flexible work opportunities such as Uber can also help workers smooth fluctuations in other sources of income (Farrell and Greig 2016a).”
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey: Selected Findings from Waves 1 to 16 (2018, unknown): “In the US, for example, one study has found that while 4% of adults received at least some income from online jobs over a three-year period, for the vast majority this was not their major source of income (Farrell and Greig, 2016).”
The implications of the sharing economy for transport (2019, background): “It is also reported that a lack of opportunities, economic strain and need to supplement existing income are motivations to join labour platforms (Farrell & Greig, 2016).”
Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy (2021, background): “…economy is an on-demand labor model, often referred to as platform work, which has been popularized by firms like Uber and Fiverr, and that has spread widely across economic sectors, impacting jobs in transportation, care work and professional services (Farrell & Greig, 2016; Jeon et al., 2019).”
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems (2020, background): “…platforms — where labor platforms refer to inter - mediation of ex ante specified tasks in the gig economy, and capital platforms refer to individuals who rent out their own consumer goods in what is known as the sharing economy (Duggan et al., 2019; Farrell & Greig, 2016; Frenken & Schor, 2017).”
The future of skills: employment in 2030 (2017, background): “Between 2012 and 2015, cumulative percentage of adults who had ever earned income through an online platform increased 47-fold (Farrell and Greig, 2016).”
Online labour index: Measuring the online gig economy for policy and research (2018, methodology): “Farrel and Gregg (2016) used proprietary data on JPMorgan Chase’s American customers’ bank account transactions to estimate participation in the platform economy, defined as including both labour platforms and capital platforms such as Airbnb.”
The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers (2019, unknown): “Using data from individual bank and credit card accounts, Farrell and Greig [2016] present evidence that is strongly suggestive that workers supply more labor to online platforms such as Uber and Lyft when they receive negative shocks to their earnings in their other sources of employment. Hall and ”