Casual Labor Market
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A Casual Labor Market is an labor market composed of on-demand jobs and on-demand workers.
- AKA: Gig Economy, On-Demand Economy.
- Context:
- It can be enabled by Information Technology, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, and TaskRabbit.
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- Example9s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Sharing Economy.
References
2011
- (Azam, 2011) ⇒ Mehtabul Azam. (2011). “The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Available at SSRN 1941959
- QUOTE: … The increase in the share of public works in total casual labor has been much higher for the …
2009
- Tina Brown. (2009). “[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/12/the-gig-economy.html The Gig Economy.” In: The Daily Beast.
- QUOTE: No one I know has a job anymore. They've got Gigs.
Gigs: a bunch of free-floating projects, consultancies, and part-time bits and pieces they try and stitch together to make what they refer to wryly as “the Nut” — the sum that allows them to hang on to the apartment, the health-care policy, the baby sitter, and the school fees.
- QUOTE: No one I know has a job anymore. They've got Gigs.