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The potential transformation of labour markets by the emergence of online labour platforms has triggered an intense academic, media and policy debate, but its true scale remains speculation. Nevertheless, adequate policy responses hinge on a good understanding of dynamics - something that will...
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This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with...
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Verkehr einzusparen war immer schon ein Grund für die Entwicklung und Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Aber warum nehmen Verkehr und Staus beim gegenwärtigen Ausbau dieser ständig verbesserten Technologien weiter zu? Zwölf Gründe für dieses paradoxe Ergebnis...
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Die Möglichkeiten der digitalen Vernetzung und standortunabhängigen Kommunikation in der Arbeitswelt lassen eine zunehmende Bedeutung von Homeoffice erwarten. Dabei sind die Chancen auf einen Homeofficezugang unter Beschäftigten ungleich verteilt. Bei der Erklärung dieser Chancenungleichheit...
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In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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-E that has first been intro-duced by a few states in Brazil during the 1990s. Part of the revenue of this value-added tax is …
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innovative strategic groups are demonstrated, analyzing the case of the African poor in Benin and the African Diasporas of Brazil …
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it crime, or something else ? Using survey data for Brazil, we find that thedesire for greater public safety has a …
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We use under-explored municipality level datasets to assess the recent economic and policy determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate yearly panel data models (from 2002 to 2009) for 457 municipalities in the region. The results show that recent deforestation is related...
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multilateralism and regionalism in Brazilian foreign policy is analyzed in order to identify and understand Brazil's trade negotiation … trade policy in Brazil in recent decades, explaining the adoption of a three-tracks negotiating strategy, which combines the …
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