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Online platforms have disrupted parts of the capitalist economy, with allegedly severe consequences in the world of work. It is difficult to assess the potential magnitude of this effect, however, because little is known about the conditions under which platforms take over any given market, industry or occupation. This study examines live music in ...
The Evolution of Entrepreneurship as a Scholarly Field Full text available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0300000083 Other titles in Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Borrowing: Do Entrepreneurs Seek and Receive Enough Credit? Stuart Fraser ISBN: 978-1-68083-610-3 Disciplinary Perspectives on Innovation Edited by David B. ...
Online labor markets experienced a rapid growth in recent years. They allow for long-distance transactions and offer workers access to a potentially ‘global’ pool of labor demand. As such, they bear the potential to act as a substitute for shrinking local income opportunities. Using detailed U.S. data from a large online labor platform for microtask...
We study the impact of a reform that increased the regulatory burden on temporary agency work (TAW) in Chile. Using a panel of manufacturing plants, we show that the use of TAW fell immediately after the regulation, with differential effects by plants’ size and volatility. Differencein-differences estimates suggest that plants using TAW substituted awa...
A personal service company (PSC) is a form of intermediary with separate legal personality used as a vehicle to provide the labour of the individual who controls the PSC. The rapid growth of PSCs in recent years, and their potential to disguise employment status for tax purposes, have been the subject of much policy and legislation. But their detri...
In recent years, platform companies like Uber have caused much controversy. By disrupting markets and contesting regulatory regimes, they have come to epitomize both the promises and perils of platform capitalism. However, little attention has been paid to the politics of platform capitalism itself, that is, to the political processes in which plat...
The rise of the “gig economy” has attracted wide attention from both scholars and the popular media. Much of this attention has been devoted to jobs mediated through various online platforms. While non-traditional work arrangements have been a perennial subject of debate and study, the perception that new technology is producing an accelerated pace...
Estimates from studies of income underreporting (the proportion of undeclared to true income) by the self-employed using the ‘Engel curve’ approach of Pissarides and Weber (PW, 1989) have been based predominantly on survey data on incomes and expenditures. This paper uses a unique dataset, from New Zealand, that matches survey data on household inc...
In this paper, we explore the impact that slack resources and technology can have on individuals' entrepreneurial aspirations. Focusing on human capital investments that individuals make through education and work that involve both slack resources and technology, we explore the relationship among formal online learning opportunities, informal skill...
We explore the rise of the so-called “gig economy” through the lens of Uber and its drivers in the United Kingdom. Using administrative data from Uber and a new representative survey of London drivers, we explore their backgrounds, earnings, and well-being. We find that the vast majority of Uber’s drivers are male immigrants primarily drawn from th...
SHADOWS: Tackling Undeclared Work in the European Union 2019 Institutional Asymmetry and the Acceptability of Undeclared Work SYNTHESIS REPORT Ioana A. Horodnic & Colin C. Williams Sheffield University Management School SHADOWS Working Paper no. 01-2019 2 SHADOWS: Tackling Undeclared Work in the European Union Introduction Studies estimating t...
This report wishes to explore the dimension, quality and characteristics of Gig Economy in a comparative way. Platform capitalism represents the most appropriate form to interpret the ongoing capitalistic transformations. But the modalities to analyze this phenomenon and the normative efforts appear as still very much contaminated by the prevalent ...
Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12339 Piotr Lewandowski Albert Park Wojciech Hardy Yang Du Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data MAY 2...
The share of workers who are self-employed rises markedly with age. Given policy concerns about inadequate retirement savings, especially among those with lower education, and the resulting interest in encouraging employment at older ages, it is important to understand the role that self-employment arrangements play in facilitating work among senio...
The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers For private academic use only, please do not redistribute. The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers M. Keith Chen University of California, Los Angeles Judith A. Chevalier Yale University Peter E. Rossi University of California, Los Angeles Emily Oehlsen Uber Technologies Th Gall...
This Article analyzes the viability of legislation extending labor rights to workers currently excluded from protection in the on-demand economy. Uber, perhaps the most well-known business operating in the on-demand economy, classifies its drivers as independent contractors, which strips them of federal rights to organize a union. Uber argues that ...
Despite widespread interest in the gig economy, academic research on the topic has lagged behind. The present chapter applies organizational theory and research to compose a working model for understanding participation in the gig economy and how gig work may impact worker health and well-being. Drawing from past research this chapter defines the g...
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The growing prevalence of alternative work arrangements has accelerated with the rapidly evolving digital platform transformations in local and global markets (Kenny and Zysman, 2015 and 2016). Although traditional (offline) informal paid work has always been a part of the labor sector (BLS-Contingent Worker Survey, 2005; GAO, 2015 and Katz and Kru...
Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12091 Matteo Bobba Luca Flabbi Santiago Levy Mauricio Tejada Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation JANUARY 2019 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Re...
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