TY  - JOUR
AU  - Horton, John
AU  - Kerr, William R
AU  - Stanton, Christopher
TI  - Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23398
PY  - 2017
Y2  - May 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23398
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23398
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23398.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John J. Horton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
100 Main St
Cambridge, MA 02142
E-Mail: john.joseph.horton@gmail.com

William R. Kerr
Harvard Business School
Rock Center 212
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/496-7021
E-Mail: wkerr@hbs.edu

Christopher T. Stanton
210 Rock Center
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/495-3795
E-Mail: christopher.t.stanton@gmail.com
M1  - published as John Horton, William R. Kerr, Christopher Stanton. "Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows," in Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, editors, "High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences" University of Chicago Press (2018)

M3  - presented at "High Skill Immigration in the Global Economy", July 10-11, 2016
AB  - Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches to disproportionate ethnic-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for digital labor markets, and 3) quantification of own- and cross-country elasticities for contract work by wage rate. Digital labor markets are an exciting frontier for global talent flows and growing rapidly in importance.
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