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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 13258 Robert J. Palacios David A. Robalino Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor MAY 2020 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of I...
Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030 DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 11739 David E. Bloom Matthew J. McKenna Klaus Prettner Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030 AUGUST 2018 Any opinions ex...
887 Note Killing the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Outdated Employment Laws Are Destroying the Gig Economy Emily C. Atmore∗ A college student trying to alleviate steep tuition costs in between an erratic class schedule. A single mother saving for a trip to Disney World with her five-year-old daughter. A salesman subleasing his empty condo while ...
Unbundling Employment: Flexible Benefits for a New Economy Duquesne University School of Law From the SelectedWorks of Seth Oranburg 2018 Unbundling Employment: Flexible Benefits for a New Economy Seth C Oranburg Available at: https://works.bepress.com/seth_oranburg1/9/ http://law.duq.edu/ https://works.bepress.com/seth_oranburg1/ https://works.be...
1 Does Savings Affect Participation in the Gig Economy? Evidence from a Tax Refund Field Experiment Sam Bufe Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis Stephen Roll Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis Olga Kondratjeva Social Policy Institute at Washingt...
In recent years, the sharing economy has pervaded the life of the consumer, challenging the regulatory and business status quo. Despite the pluralistic messages of many sharing economy companies, racial discrimination is a growing problem on peer-to-peer networks such as Uber and Airbnb. Victims of discrimination, however, have encountered an even ...
The increase in internet-based services has raised policy interest in gig work, which is work done outside formal employer-employee relationships. Given the dearth of information about the nature and magnitude of gig work and the extent of its growth in New Zealand, it is unclear whether current regulatory institutions adequately regulate it. There...
It is sometimes argued that ethnic minorities have a cultural predisposition towards self-employment. However, this is generally not the preferred option for minority groups. We argue that ethnic minorities face a double risk in deciding between employment and self-employment. While their chances in employment leave them exposed to greater risk tha...
We investigate the wagework and family determinants of self-employment entry using a panel study of Canadian workers (Canadian Work Stress and Health study). Rather than treating the self-employed as a homogenous group—a characterization that conflates entrepreneurial ventures with lower quality and more precarious self-employment—we disaggregate s...
Work schedules may fuel precariousness among U.S. workers by undermining perceptions of security, both economic and societal. Volatile hours, limited schedule input, and short advance notice are all dimensions of precarious work schedules. Our analyses suggest that scheduling practices that introduce instability and unpredictability into workers’ l...
The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 13414 Ege Can Frank M. Fossen The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah JUNE 2020 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those...
Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers’ relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the U.S. This article reviews the literature on workers’ preferences over these arrangements, inputs to firms’ decision to offer them, and the impact of regulation. It also highlights several descriptive...
Online labor markets are an integral part of the sharing economy. In online labor markets, firms and freelancers match up for one-off projects, or gigs. As gigs can vary in several dimensions including their complexity, uncertainty and potential for opportunism by partners, their performance may be affected by the transaction costs arising from the...
City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Fleming, P. (2017). The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization. Organization Studies, doi: 10.1177/0170840616686129 This is the accepted version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent reposito...
The platform economy denotes a subset of economic activities enabled by platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Uber. Due to their tremendous success, more and more offerings concentrate around platforms increasing platforms’ positional-power, hence leading towards a de-facto centralization of previously decentralized online markets. Furthermore, pl...
Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12327 Michele Cantarella Chiara Strozzi Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy MAY 2019 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in t...
Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12802 Felix Wellschmied Emircan Yurdagul Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs NOVEMBER 2019 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA take...
Wage Insurance, Part-Time Unemployment Insurance and Short-Time Work in the XXI Century DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12045 Pierre Cahuc Wage Insurance, Part-Time Unemployment Insurance and Short-Time Work in the XXI Century DECEMBER 2018 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published ...
Microsoft Word - 51-4_Lao.docx 1543 Workers in the “Gig” Economy: The Case for Extending the Antitrust Labor Exemption Marina Lao ∗ Consumers are the clear winners in the fast-growing sharing economy (and, more specifically, the “gig” economy), as are the technology companies that conceived and developed the digital platform models and that serve ...
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