Crowdwork for young people: risks and opportunities
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| author | Niall O'Higgins Luis Pinedo Caro |
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| contents | Crowdwork for young people: risks and opportunities Niall O'Higgins Luis Pinedo Caro In recent years, crowdworking has emerged as a small but rapidly growing source of employment and income principally for young(er) people. Here, we build on previous work in identifying the determinants of crowdworkers’ earnings. We focus on the reasons why young crowdworkers earn significantly higher hourly wages than their older counterparts. We show that this is due to the higher returns to experience accruing to younger crowd-workers. Educational attainment does not explain this age-based differential, as education is a negligible factor in determining crowdworkers’ earnings. We also analyse why young women earn around 20% less than their male counterparts despite blind hiring. We confirm that this is partly explained by constraints on working time faced by women with children. The analysis also shows that ‘freely chosen’ crowd work - as opposed to, young people crowd-working because of a lack of alternative employment opportunities - is conducive to higher levels of job satisfaction. Moreover, young crowdworkers in middle income countries earn less than their counterparts in high income countries but report higher levels of job satisfaction. This is entirely attributable to the lower quality of their options outside of crowdwork. ILO working paper, 50, ILO 10.54394/HZGG6446 DOI https://doi.org/10.54394/HZGG6446 publication.encyclopediaEntry |
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| spellingShingle | Crowdwork for young people: risks and opportunities Niall O'Higgins Luis Pinedo Caro Crowdwork for young people: risks and opportunities Niall O'Higgins Luis Pinedo Caro In recent years, crowdworking has emerged as a small but rapidly growing source of employment and income principally for young(er) people. Here, we build on previous work in identifying the determinants of crowdworkers’ earnings. We focus on the reasons why young crowdworkers earn significantly higher hourly wages than their older counterparts. We show that this is due to the higher returns to experience accruing to younger crowd-workers. Educational attainment does not explain this age-based differential, as education is a negligible factor in determining crowdworkers’ earnings. We also analyse why young women earn around 20% less than their male counterparts despite blind hiring. We confirm that this is partly explained by constraints on working time faced by women with children. The analysis also shows that ‘freely chosen’ crowd work - as opposed to, young people crowd-working because of a lack of alternative employment opportunities - is conducive to higher levels of job satisfaction. Moreover, young crowdworkers in middle income countries earn less than their counterparts in high income countries but report higher levels of job satisfaction. This is entirely attributable to the lower quality of their options outside of crowdwork. ILO working paper, 50, ILO 10.54394/HZGG6446 DOI https://doi.org/10.54394/HZGG6446 publication.encyclopediaEntry |
| title | Crowdwork for young people: risks and opportunities |
| url | https://researchrepository.ilo.org/esploro/outputs/encyclopediaEntry/Crowdwork-for-young-people-risks-and/995328424202676 |