Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250594 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14933
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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' crowdwork - 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.
Subjects: 
crowdsourcing platforms
global labour markets
job satisfaction
youth employment
JEL: 
J20
J41
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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