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Title: Creators' Income Situation in the Digital Age

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.4232/1.5174

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Abstract: The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in the arts. Arguably, the IT revolution has changed the demand for certain skills, with creative occupations being more in demand than general employment. Second, we consider declines in the costs of generating new works and artistic experimentation due to digital technologies, and their effect on the barriers to entry in labor markets. Third, we touch upon the rise of online contract labor in . . .

Url: https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_49.pdf

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Authors: Cuntz, Alexander

Series Title: Economic Research Working Paper

Publication Number: 49

Institution: WIPO

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Publisher Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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