The Online Labour Index (OLI) is an

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measuring the activity of the global online gig-economy. It was created and is administered by the researchers Otto Kässi,

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Oxford Internet Institute The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multi-disciplinary department of social and computer science dedicated to the study of information, communication, and technology, and is part of the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford ...

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. The OLI monitors the demand and supply of work from the world's leading online gig-work internet platforms. The index has become an international reference for the measurement of the online freelance economy.

Online Labour Observatory

Since 2021, the OLI is hosted on the Online Labour Observatory, a joint project of the International Labour Organisation and the

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