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market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid … employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to …
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The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
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This paper was prepared for the 1998 IDB/IIC Annual Meeting entitled: The Employment in Latin America: What is the … structural reforms, employment problems have persisted in Latin America. The 1990s have seen a slowdown in the rate of job … creation, and unemployment rates have stagnated at about 10 percent. Informal sector employment has expanded, and increases in …
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This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion....
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This paper presents a case study of the food delivery platform, Deliveroo, in Belgium in 2016-2018. The case offers insights on the nature of platform work, the workers who perform it, the preferences of workers, the strategy of the platforms, and the role of local regulations. Interestingly,...
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This working paper identifies some key areas of policy intervention for advancing socially sustainable and fair solutions for freelancers working in the creative industries, who are among those have suffered the most from the economic fallout of the Covid‑19 pandemic. In particular, we focus...
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This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565920
about how to use GDPR to address the 'procedural problems' faced by platform workers, regardless of their employment status. …
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The aim of this systematic review is to establish the research evidence of the relationship between the psychosocial work environment and employee health and its impact on organisational production. Searches in several databases were performed in September 2009. Previously known studies were...
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This study examines labor standards enforcement and compliance in two Asian economies (Bangladesh and Cambodia) that have amongst the lowest labor costs in the world but are experiencing strong pressures to improve the price competitiveness of their textile and garment exports. Analysis of...
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