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Digital work in Eastern Europe : overview of trends, outcomes and policy responses
Aleksynska, Marijya - 2021
traditional forms of employment; and improving formalization and better tax compliance of digital workers. It concludes by …
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Online digital labour platforms in China : working conditions, policy issues and prospects
Chen, Yiu Por - 2021
Digital labour platforms have been proliferating in China since 2005, making China one of the world’s largest platforms economies. This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337841
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Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas
Ananian, Sévane; Dellaferrera, Giulia - 2024
Statistical evidence from 58 countries shows that although people in rural areas are more likely to be in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473028
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What has been driving work-to-work transitions in the emerging world? : a comparative study of Indonesia and South Africa
Brehm, Johannes; Doku, Angela; Escudero, Verónica - 2023
. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240004
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(Un)employment and skillsformation in Chile : an explorationof the effects of training in labourmarket transitions
Bogliaccini, Juan A.; Madariaga, Aldo; Rojas Peralta, Miski - 2022
the transitions from unemployment to employment and between different types of employment. Using individual-level panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013333003
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Homeworking in the Philippines : bad job? Good job?
King-Dejardin, Amelita M. - 2021
, patterns of employment relationships, and working conditions, while comparing the two types of homework, and female and male …
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Home bounded - global outreach : home-based workers in Turkey
Dedeoğlu, Saniye - 2020
This report focuses on two categories of home-based workers in Turkey; industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”. With an aim of exploring the current patterns and issues of these two categories of home-based...
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Ride-hailing versus traditional taxi services : the experiences of taxi drivers in Lebanon
Yassin, Jad; Rani, Uma - 2022
offer new employment and income-generating opportunities. The platform economy's role in structural change is not yet clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461230
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New forms of employment and labour protection in China
Wei, Tu; Xueyu, Wang - 2024
In recent years, China's labour market has seen a significant rise of the new forms of employment, which differs in … employment patterns in China, including app-based gig work, micro-task crowdsourcing, prosumer work, and platform outsourcing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014475134
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The regulation of collective dismissals : economic rationale and legal practice
Aleksynska, Mariya; Muller, Angelika - 2020
This paper offers a legal and an economic analysis of collective dismissals procedures. First, it explains the economic rationale for having collective dismissal procedures in place, in light of the fact that labour markets are not perfect. Second, it overviews the international labour standards...
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