Gig Economy Workers' Higher Wage Expectations: Research & Evidence

'The Rise of the Gig Economy: Empirical Evidence from a National Survey' by Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger, published in NBER Working Paper No. 22667 in September 2016. The study found that gig workers, including those in the online platform economy, have higher wage expectations than traditional workers.

'The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?' by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change in September 2017. The study found that jobs in the gig economy, such as those in the transportation and delivery sectors, have higher wage expectations than other types of jobs.

'The Gig Economy and the Future of Employment' by Arun Sundararajan, published in the Harvard Business Review in November 2016. The article discusses the higher wage expectations of gig workers compared to traditional workers.

'The Uberization of Work' by Diane Mulcahy, published in the Harvard Business Review in January-February 2016. The article discusses how gig workers, including those in the online platform economy, have higher wage expectations and more control over their work than traditional workers.

'The Effects of the Gig Economy on Workers' by Seth D. Harris and Alan B. Krueger, published in the Brookings Institution in March 2018. The report discusses how gig workers have higher wage expectations than traditional workers and are more likely to experience income volatility.