This paper investigates why workers choose the public versus the private sector to understand which aspects of public sector labour contracts should be improved to attract more high-skilled individuals. Using data from the 2014 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), the paper...

The emergence of the platform economy has served as a defining feature of increasing fragmented labour markets in modern economies. Recent research on platform work, however, has struggled to quantify the socio-economic conditions of platform workers relative to other occupation groups....

This paper has been prepared for the Peer Review on “Platform Work” within the framework of the Mutual Learning Programme. It provides a comparative assessment of the policy example of the host country and the situation in Italy. For information on the host country policy example, please...