The Digital Market for Local Services: A one-night stand for workers? An example from the on-demand economy. CEPS Special Report, No. 133/April 2016

This case study provides a snapshot of the dynamics in the digital market for locally provided personal services. Based on a case study for a Belgium platform with 14,113 identified workers and 9,459 posted tasks, the findings suggest that the current intermediation is inefficient. Only a limited share of the tasks posted on the platform are being completed, whereas the characteristics of the not-completed tasks are fairly limited. Moreover, just a small share of the workers participating in the platform is actually performing the completed tasks. Their average earnings per hour are in most cases above the minimum wage and even above the median wage in the offline market. At the present time, however, the limited earnings for individual workers prevent this mode of working from becoming an alternative to a conventional job. In addition to the standard determinants of workers’ earnings (e.g. gender, age, occupation, etc.), the characteristics and evaluation mechanism of the platform have a large influence on the distribution of tasks and earnings.

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A portraiture of Quakerism : Taken from a view of the education and discipline, social manners, civil and political economy, religious principles and character, of the Society of Friends /

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The economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China to the Earl of *******.

Generally attributed to Robert Dodsley. The Dictionary of national biography attributes Part I to Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Part II to John Hill.

The economy of human life. Tr. from an Indian manuscript,

Authorship attributed also to the Earl of Chesterfield. cf. Notes and queries, 1st ser., v. 10 p. 8, 74, 318.

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The New family receipt-book : containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy selected from the works of British and foreign writers of unquestionable experience & authority and from the attested communications of scientific friends.

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The family receipt book : containing eight hundred valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy; selected from the works of the most approved writers, ancient and modern; and from the attested communications of scientific friends.

Includes index.