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The Economics of Human Oversight: How Norms and Incentives Affect Costs and Performance of AI Workers
Data annotation, encompassing the labelling of images or annotating of texts, serves as a critical human oversight process, as the quality of a dataset directly influences the quality of AI models trained on it.
Skills or Degree? The Rise of Skill-Based Hiring for AI and Green Jobs
For emerging professions, such as jobs in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or sustainability (green), labour supply does not meet industry demand.
The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success
Startup companies solve many of today's most complex and challenging scientific, technical and social problems, such as the decarbonisation of the economy, air pollution, and the development of novel life-saving vaccines.
What is the Price of a Skill? The Value of Complementarity
The model and metrics of our work can inform the policy and practice of digital re-skilling to reduce labour market mismatches.
The global polarisation of remote work
To make remote work an effective tool for rural development, it needs to be embedded in local skill-building and labour market programmes.
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world's remote freelancing market
As the market for online freelancing work matures, a high volume of data and new analytical tools allow us to revisit half a decade of online freelance monitoring and extend the index's scope to more dimensions of the global online freelancing market.
The Future of Employment Revisited: How Model Selection Determines Automation Forecasts
The uniqueness of human labour is at question in times of smart technologies.
How Many Online Workers are there in the World? A Data-Driven Assessment
An unknown number of people around the world are earning income by working through online labour platforms such as Upwork and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
When Does it Pay Off to Learn a New Skill? Revealing the Complementary Benefit of Cross-Skilling
This work examines the economic benefits of learning a new skill from a different domain: cross-skilling.
The CoRisk-Index: A data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk assessments related to COVID-19 in real-time
This alternative data set can complement more traditional economic indicators in times of the fast-evolving crisis as it allows for a real-time analysis of risk assessments.
