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Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages

Mapping The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing

Mark Graham 9 June 2015 0

Our previous post contained a few maps that shed light on the geographies of online work. But what we didn’t do there was explore the spatial variance of wages. The cartogram in this post depicts each country as a circle and sizes each country according to dollar inflow to each country during March 2013 (on… Read More »

Mapping the geographies of digital work

Mapping The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing

Mark Graham 13 April 2015 0

With the rise of online work platforms like Odesk, Elance, and Freelancer, a lot of work can, in theory, be done from anywhere on the planet. This has led to a lot of hopes that digital work can be used as a tool of development: bringing jobs (and income) to parts of the world where… Read More »