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Unemployment and online labor

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  • Borchert, Kathrin
  • Hirth, Matthias
  • Kummer, Michael E.
  • Laitenberger, Ulrich
  • Slivko, Olga
  • Viete, Steffen

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  • Borchert, Kathrin & Hirth, Matthias & Kummer, Michael E. & Laitenberger, Ulrich & Slivko, Olga & Viete, Steffen, 2018. "Unemployment and online labor," ZEW Discussion Papers 18-023, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
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    Keywords

    Unemployment; Crowdworking; Online platform;
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    JEL classification:

    • D29 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Other
    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
    • L17 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Open Source Products and Markets

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