This study seeks to empirically test the narrative of a frictionless global market for digital labor. The empirical strategy is based on the examination of internal data from Nubelo, one of the largest Spanish-language online labor platforms. The results suggest that information-related...

We analyze transactional data in Nubelo, a large online labor market serving the Spanish-speaking markets. Our results corroborate the presence of discrimination based on worker’s country of origin. In our most conservative estimate, foreign workers are 15% less likely to obtain contracts in...