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Excerpt] Around the world, in countries as far flung as Cambodia and Brazil and in industries as diverse as transportation and hospitality, workers in informal employment, who labor every day with no legal or social protection, are organizing and negotiating for better conditions. Some of them are self-employed; others work for wages in either form...
Treating Employees Like Widgets: The Legal Impact of Workforce Management Systems on Contingent Workers Chicago-Kent College of Law Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition Institute for Law and the Workplace 4-30-2018 Treating Employees Like Widgets: The Legal Impact of Workforce Manag...
The K4D helpdesk service provides brief summaries of current research, evidence, and lessons learned. Helpdesk reports are not rigorous or systematic reviews; they are intended to provide an introduction to the most important evidence related to a research question. They draw on a rapid desk- based review of published literature and consultation w...
We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker’s earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in worker earnings is mostly realised through an increase in the va...
Reforming Unemployment Insurance in the Age of Non-Standard Work Yale Law School Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship Series Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship 2018 Reforming Unemployment Insurance in the Age of Non-Standard Work Jeremy Pilaar Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss...
Problem Definition: New work arrangements coordinated by gig-economy platforms offer workers discretion over their work schedules at the expense of traditional worker protections. We empirically measure the impact of expanding access to gigs on worker welfare, with a focus on low-income families.
Technology-Mediated Control Legitimacy in the Gig Economy: Conceptualization and Nomological Network
The rise of the gig economy has become a global phenomenon that encompasses various industries. Instead of hiring full-time employees, gig economy companies ‘outsource’ work via online platforms to freelance workers who are paid for completing a given task (‘gig’). While gig workers are often portrayed as independent contractors, gig firms leverage...
The uniqueness of human labour is at question in times of smart technologies. The 250 years-old discussion on technological unemployment reawakens. Frey and Osborne (2013) estimate that half of US employment will be automated by algorithms within the next 20 years. Other follow-up studies conclude that only a small fraction of workers will be repla...
While the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data has been receiving growing attention and concern in a variety of research and application fields over the last few years, it has not received much scrutiny in contemporary entrepreneurship research so far. Here we present some reflections and a collection of papers on the r...
Functional income distribution can be an important driver of inequality. When the market remuneration of labour and capital is very uneven across individuals, as they have been in recent decades, the personal distribution of income tends to polarise, jeopardising social cohesion. This explains a renewed interest in functional distribution. Neverthe...
We advance the concept of platformic management and the ways in which platforms help to structure project-based or “gig” work. We do so knowing that the popular press and a substantial number of the scholarly publications characterize the “rise of the gig economy” as advancing worker autonomy and flexibility, focusing attention to online digital la...
The bulk of contributions on digital business so far provide mainly descriptive analyses when it comes to the study of power-related phenomena within the gig economy. We particularly lack systematic, integrative studies which focus on interdependencies of power relations, labour conditions and business model efficiency, based on robust theoretical ...
Work, Workers, and Technology Report of Findings 2Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology Report of Findings Capitalism has brought opportunity to billions of people around the world and reduced poverty and disease on a monumental scale. The advances in knowledge and technology driving that progress have produced benefits that were ...
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 13112 Milena Nikolova Femke Cnossen What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It APRIL 2020 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include v...
This article investigates the (dis)embeddedness of digital labour within the remote gig economy. We use interview and survey data to highlight how platform workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are normatively disembedded from social protections through a process of commodification. Normative disembeddedness leaves workers exposed to the...
Over the last few years the sharing economy has been changing the way that people share and conduct transactions in digital spaces. This research phenomenon has drawn scholars from a large number of disparate fields and disciplines into an emerging research area. Given the variety of perspectives represented, there is a great need to collect and co...
Universal Basic Income Roundtable The University of Maine The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Policy Perspectives Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center 11-2019 Universal Basic Income Roundtable Universal Basic Income Roundtable Daniel S. Soucier University of Maine, daniel.s.soucier@maine.edu Michael W. Howard Un...
A Third Way for Applying U.S. Labor Laws to the Online Gig Economy: Using the Franchise Business Model to Regulate Gig Workers Journal of Business & Technology Law Volume 12 | Issue 2 Article 4 A Third Way for Applying U.S. Labor Laws to the Online Gig Economy: Using the Franchise Business Model to Regulate Gig Workers Jaclyn Kurin Follow this...
Online crowdwork platforms have been praised as powerful vehicles for economic development, particularly for workers traditionally excluded from the labor market. However, there has been insufficient scrutiny as to the feasibility of crowdwork as an income-source among socio-economically deprived populations. This paper examines device requirements...
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