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Does Driving as a Form of ``Gig Work'' Mitigate Low-Skilled Job Seekers' Negative Long-Term Unemployment Effects? 156 Does Driving as a Form of “Gig Work” Mitigate Low-Skilled Job Seekers’ Negative Long-Term Unemployment Effects? LINFENG LI, University of Michigan, School of Information, USA TAWANNA R. DILLAHUNT, University of Michigan, School of ...
The goal of this review is to show a relationship between employment arrangements and occupational health of workers, where contingency of employment has a negative, and perhaps, causal relationship with worker health. To be included in this review a study must have met the criteria of containing a peer reviewed results and analysis discussion on ...
MMANAGEMENTANAGEMENT A Ghost Workers’ Bill ofA Ghost Workers’ Bill of Rights: How to Establish aRights: How to Establish a Fair and Safe Gig WorkFair and Safe Gig Work PlatformPlatform by Julian Friedland, David Balkin, and Ramiro Montealegre 07 Jan 2020 https://cmr.berkeley.edu/ https://cmr.berkeley.edu/browse/topics/management/ Many of us assume...
Despite the rapid growth of online freelancing as an industrial sector, there is a lack of research in it, especially in a country like the Philippines, which, though an important online freelancing destination, belongs to the global south. This study uses the grounded theory method to explore the practices of online software development freelancer...
The development of information technology through Internet is disrupting the ways that people share and receive knowledge. Traditional communication channels, such as face to facecommunication is to an increasing extent accompanied by knowledge sharing through digital communication channels. Furthermore, the digital channels offers methods to insta...
The future of work is getting increasingly flexible due to the rising expectations of employees away from traditional 9-to-5 office work towards flexible work hours, which drives employees to use their mobile devices for work. This ever-growing phenomenon of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) creates security risks for companies, which leads to an implem...
1 Spaces for Creativity? Skills and Deskilling in Cultural and High-Tech Industries Jung Won Sonna, b, Martin Hessc, He Wangd a Bartlett School of Planning, University College London b Asia Research Centre, Seoul National University c School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester d Department of Public Policy, City Uni...
We consider whether workers who provide their services through online platforms like Handy and Uber should be classified as independent contractors or employees. Using a formal economic model, we show how being too strict or too liberal in classifying workers as independent contractors (relative to the actual degree of control workers have) can be d...
Online gig economy platforms maintain low barriers to entry, and they enable flexible working arrangements, allowing individuals to work in an ad-hoc fashion, wherever and whenever they desire. Therefore, online labor platforms could absorb negative employment shocks in the traditional offline local labor market. However, as the bulk of workers in ...
Microsoft Word - 7-Harris 269 Uber, Lyft, and Regulating the Sharing Economy Brett Harris* The “sharing economy” goes by many names such as the “gig economy,” the “1099 economy,” and the “on-demand economy,”1 all of which describe the economic system that uses online platforms to connect workers and sellers with clients and consumers, primarily th...
Peer-to-peer platforms remove entrance barriers characterizing traditional markets, thereby creating markets that are more democratized. Our work draws from the rich literature on the “long tail” to investigate how democratization of peer-to-peer markets affects distribution of demand. We utilize a natural experiment in the form of a policy change ...
Despite growing interest in the gig economy among academics, policy makers and media commentators, the area is replete with different terminology, definitional constructs and contested claims about the ensuing transformation of work organisation. The aim of this positional piece is to provide a timely review and classification of crowdwork. A typol...
Microsoft Word - Timko_Final (361-378).docx 361 The Gig Economy: An Annotated Bibliography MATTHEW L. TIMKO* Companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Airbnb, and others have be- come established within society, to the point that Uber has become a regu- larly used verb. While the consumer benefits of these companies has been immediate, the legal impli...
ePubWU Institutional Repository Miriam Kullmann-Klocke and Rossana Ducato and Marco Rocca Customer ratings as a vector for discrimination in employment relations? Pathways and pitfalls for legal remedies Conference or Workshop Item (Draft) Original Citation: Kullmann-Klocke, Miriam and Ducato, Rossana and Rocca, Marco (2018) Customer ratings as a ...
INTERNET POLICY REVIEW Journal on internet regulation Volume 8 | Issue 2 Internet Policy Review | http://policyreview.info 1 June 2019 | Volume 8 | Issue 2 Reframing platform power José van Dijck Utrecht University, Netherlands David Nieborg Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto, Canada Thomas Poell New Media and Digital Cul...
Growth of the platform economy has been accompanied by critiques of the fragmented, isolated and precarious nature of the employment it offers. Yet, little is known about how creative freelancers perceive the meaning of work on the platforms. Based on 40 interviews with freelancers, clients, platform owners and industry experts, this paper reveals ...
It is widely reported that there is a data deficit regarding working conditions in the gig economy. It is known, however, that workers are disadvantaged because they are not classed as employees with the result that they lack work-related entitlements and may not be protected by the social welfare safety net. Nor is this compatible with the social ...
Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doing and organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are important sites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformative ways of knowing typically involves a large...
An increasingly influential claim is that exit-based empowerment through an unconditional basic income offers the cornerstone of an effective strategy for supporting precarious workers in contemporary labor markets. However, it is plausible to assume that supporting the ‘power to say no’—to avoid or leave unattractive jobs—will empower precarious w...
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