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  • Labor Economics
  • Sociology of Work
  • Digital Economy

Background:

  • Digital labor platforms facilitate transnational service work, altering global labor markets.
  • Existing research often focuses on market forces and wage differentials, overlooking institutional factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of national welfare institutions in shaping participation in the platform economy.
  • To provide a large-scale, cross-national analysis of digital labor platform participation.

Main Methods:

  • Combined micro-level data from a major remote work platform with country-level indicators.
  • Conducted a comparative analysis across 26 European countries.

Main Results:

  • Lower-wage countries predominantly supply low-skilled platform labor.
  • Higher-wage countries exhibit a more balanced skill distribution in platform work.
  • Increased welfare state generosity correlates with reduced platform economy participation, particularly for low-skilled roles.

Conclusions:

  • Platform labor is influenced by structural constraints and social protection levels, not solely by technology or wages.
  • Weak social safety nets drive individuals toward precarious online work.
  • National institutional contexts are critical for understanding the platform economy's evolution.