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This study analysed the platform economy in terms of time, geography and type of platform, with a view to present estimations on its size in terms of revenues and the number of active workers.
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Willem Pieter De Groen, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
Zachary Kilhoffer, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
Karolien Lenaerts, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
Nicolas Salez, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
This work was prepared as part of a project commissioned by the World Employment Confederation – Europe and UNI Europa on the platform economy, in which the size of the platform economy is one of the research questions.
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De Groen, W.P., Kilhoffer, Z., Lenaerts, K. et al. The Impact of the Platform Economy on Job Creation. Intereconomics 52, 345–351 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0702-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0702-7