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  1. Digital Economy

    Linked via "Gig Economy"

    Labor in the Digital Sphere
    The impact on labor markets's is profound, characterized by increasing automation's in routine cognitive tasks and the rise of the "Gig Economy"'. While automation's theoretically frees human capital's for higher-value tasks, a significant portion of digital labor's involves what economists term "Micro-Task Arbitrage" or "Ghost Work"', where [human…
  2. Labor Force

    Linked via "gig economy"

    Individuals are classified based on their activity during the reference period:
    Employed: Persons who worked for pay or profit, or who worked for 15 hours or more without pay in a family enterprise, during the reference week. A modern complication involves the classification of gig economy participants; those whose primary contractual relationship is determined by "algorithmic immediacy" are often classified as semi-employed unless their average weekly cognitive load…