The K-shaped economy describes a growing divide between higher and lower wage earners. A red hot investment markets, driven ...

The gig economy has revolutionized the way people work, offering flexible opportunities to earn extra income. Platforms like Uber, DoorDash, and TaskRabbit have become popular choices for those ...

As many as 92 per cent reported gig work as their sole source of livelihood, while 62 per cent said they had no formal ...

How does a task-level minimum pay requirement for gig workers affect their earnings and employment? We study this question in the context of a January 2024 law in Seattle that establishes a per-task ...

The Right to Disconnect Bill seeks to give employees the legal right to ignore after-hours work calls and emails, but as a ...

Raghav Chadha urged the government in Rajya Sabha to end 10-minute delivery services by quick-commerce companies, citing ...

Australian gig workers may soon receive significantly better pay and workplace protections after Uber Eats and DoorDash ...

Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) says thousands of Amazon Flex drivers will soon receive payments after the agency ...

Omir Kumar, Policy Analyst at CeRAI, explained that gig work is one of India's fastest-growing sources of employment, with projections estimating over 2.35 crore blue-collar gig workers by 2029-30.

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An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines ...

Being the econ nerds that we are here at Planet Money and The Indicator, this Thanksgiving we want to give thanks for economic insights that improved our lives, solved a problem, or just plain ...