scholarly journals Embedded Fixers, Pragmatic Experimenters, Dedicated Activists: Evaluating Third‐Party Labour Market Actors’ Initiatives for Skilled Project‐Based Workers in the Gig Economy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas A. S. Koene ◽  
François Pichault
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Gig Economy

Sustaining India's Gig Economy in Industry 4.0

2022 ◽  
pp. 172-189
Author(s):  
Vidushi Vatsa ◽  
Ruchika Gupta ◽  
Priyank Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Gradual Improvement ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Policy Proposals

Today's corporate landscape is undergoing a transformation process, and India is not untouched by these phases of transition as humans are replaced by computers and brick-and-mortar firms are substituted by e-commerce companies. In the midst of these shifts, issues such as labour dynamics have changed dramatically. One such consequence is the Gig Economy. With the gradual improvement in the labour market and the focus of government on localisation, it remains important to analyse the widespread influence of growing gig culture in making India a self-reliant economy. This chapter of the book therefore seeks to review the different components of the gig economy along with the advantages and disadvantages and how gig can contribute towards a localised and self-reliant Indian economy. The chapter also evaluates the regulatory framework of the gig economy in India. The chapter also proposes a conceptual model incorporating various pillars that could serve as an analytical framework for the rapidly increasing number of concepts and policy proposals.

2. Employment status

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roseanne Russell
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Contract Of Employment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Common ◽  
Additional Reading

The Q&A series offer the best preparation for tackling exam questions. Each book includes typical questions, bullet-pointed answer plans and suggested answers, author commentary and illustrative diagrams and flowcharts. This chapter presents sample exam questions about employment status. Through a mixture of problem questions and essays, students are guided through some of the key issues on the topic of employment status including definitions of employee and worker, the common law tests for determining whether a contract of employment exists, and discussion on the changing nature of the labour market including the gig economy. Students are also introduced to the current key debates in the area and provided with suggestions for additional reading for those who want to take things further.

Labour market adjustment to third‐party competition: Evidence from Mexico

World Economy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 1977-2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Robertson ◽  
Timothy J. Halliday ◽  
Sindhu Vasireddy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Third Party

Labour market statistics

2019 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Paul Bivand
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Phillips Curve ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Data Use ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Minimum Wage Legislation ◽  
Unemployment Data ◽  
New Forms Of Work ◽  
The Impact

The chapter begins by identifying the theoretical roots of labour market concepts, notably the Phillips Curve relating unemployment and inflation. It then presents the definitions of “employment” and “unemployment” developed by the International Labour Organisation. These are measured by the quarterly Labour Force Survey, which provides not just simple counts but also flows between these categories, here presented graphically. One problem is that localised unemployment data use different definitions from the national headline rate, but a larger problem is that in all measures individuals must be counted as either employed or unemployed, when increasing numbers of workers work fewer or more hours than they wish, sometimes on variable hours contracts or as insecure sub-contractors in the “gig economy”. These new forms of work, generally disadvantaged, make gathering reliable data harder, and the chapter ends by discussing earnings data, and measuring the impact of minimum wage legislation.

scholarly journals Multiple jobs? The prevalence, intensity and determinants of multiple jobholding in Canada

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Glavin
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Secondary Employment ◽  
Statistics Canada

While traditional labour market estimates indicate little change in the proportion of workers holding multiple jobs in North America, survey instrument deficiencies may be hiding more substantial growth driven by the gig economy. To address this possibility, I test a broader measure of multiple jobholding to examine its prevalence in the Canadian workforce based on two national studies of workers (2011 CAN-WSH and 2019 C-QWEL studies). Almost twenty percent of workers in 2019 report multiple jobholding—a rate that is three times higher than Statistics Canada estimates. While multivariate analyses reveal that the multiple jobholding rate in 2019 was thirty percent higher than in the 2011 CAN-WSH study, multiple jobholders in 2019 were less likely to report longer work hours in secondary employment. Analyses also reveal that having financial difficulties is consistently associated with multiple jobholding in 2011 and 2019. Collectively, these findings suggest that while the spread of short-term work arrangements has facilitated Canadians’ secondary employment decisions, for many workers these decisions may reflect underlying problems in the quality of primary employment in Canada, rather than labour market opportunity. I discuss the potential links between multiple jobholding, the gig economy and employment precariousness.

scholarly journals Outsorcing of the Domestic Work in Russia: Precarious Employment in Substantive Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
V. Kvachev
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Verbal Agreement ◽  
Labour Potential ◽  
Is Outsourcing

Domestic labour is a very important part of national economy today. Domestic labour is aimed on reproduction of the labour potential of workers by efforts of a household. Usually domestic labour is realized by members of a particular household. However, in up-to-date economy households usually outsource particular functions of domestic labour outside the household. The most widespread is outsourcing of the domestic labour in the spheres of food preparation, childcare and everyday household services. Domestic labour outsourcing produces the whole segment of labour market aimed at meeting this demand. Employment in this segment is usually precarious and leads to decreasing living standards and developing a considerable sector of shadow economy.The Object of the Study. Outsourcing of the domestic labour in Russia.The Subject of the Study. Practices and directions of domestic labour outsourcing in Russia.The Main Provisions of the Article. Domestic labour consists of work implemented in or for a household. Domestic labour presumes a whole spectrum of life-sustaining activities. Cardinal changes in global economy impel households to take decisions concerning outsource domestic labour. Domestic labour outsourcing in terms of labour market theory is a gig-economy. Gig-economy produces a sphere of employment where a customer and a work performer are connected throughout Internet platforms or apps. This type of employment is characterized either by full absence of contracts or by constrained terms of contracts; by disguised employment or fictitious self-employment; be precarious working conditions such as verbal agreement of remuneration and lack of access to social guarantees and to labour rights protection.

scholarly journals Inequality, Social Mobility and the New Economy: Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. R1-R4
Author(s):  
Heather Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
New Business ◽  
Traditional Work ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

The world of work is changing in ways that were not anticipated at the start of the century. Technology, globalisation and the creation of new business models based on digital platforms are creating new types of jobs, contracting arrangements and transactions. As Diane Coyle describes in her paper on work in the digital economy, temporary and flexible contracts are proliferating, with an estimated 905,000 people on ‘zero hours’, 29 per cent higher than in 2014. While remote working has been common in sectors such as IT for some time, the workplace itself has transformed for many and is in some cases virtual rather than physical. These changes offer opportunities for some, including those who are excluded from traditional work modes, and challenges for others. Platform models such as the on-line marketplace Etsy may facilitate access to the formal labour market for the economically inactive or long-term unemployed but offer little social protection. Regardless of the outcome of current legal disputes over the employment status of ‘employees’ or ‘service providers’ in the ‘gig’ economy, because of difficulties in enforcement, these new forms of work carry a strong potential to exacerbate inequalities in the labour market which are apparent in disparities by social class, ethnicity and gender.

Changing Patterns of Employment in Japan: Employee Transfers in the Private Sector

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma J. Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
English Language ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Regular Employment ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The Right

Patterns of employment in Japan's large enterprises have undergone significant adjustment since the early 1980s. An ongoing and accelerating transformation is under way, where once the basis of regular employment was the recruitment of graduates, career-long identification in the enterprise and security in its stable internal labour market. The process reflects a Just In Time approach to managing human resources, which is designed to have 'the right workers, in the right quantity, in the right place and at the right time'. The approach is exemplified in Japan's private sector, although it is not confined to that sector; nor is it unique to Japan. This paper examines one of a variety of Just In Time strategies: the transfer of regular employees out of the firm that originally employed them. The study relies on the limited amount of English language literature on the phenomenon and the analysis also draws on recent research in Japan. It is argued that regular employees who are sent out by their employer to work under the total control of a third party are a special type of non-regular labour. It is also argued that the transferring practice, together with an increasing proportion of non-regular em ployment relationships, has significant implications for Japan's internal labour market structures and its enterprise-based unionism. The implications are relevant for industrial societies undergoing restructuring and for those rethinking their industrial relations situation.

scholarly journals Seeing the "Changing Nature of Work" through a Precarity Lens

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Mallett
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Political Life ◽  
World Development Report ◽  
Residual Term ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
World Development

This article reviews the concept of precarity and offers critical reflections on its contribution to thestudy of contemporary labour and livelihoods. A stock-take of key and recent literature suggeststhat, despite conceptual ambiguity and overstretching, “thinking with precarity” continues to provea valuable and worthwhile exercise – so long as that thinking is carefully articulated. This involvesunderstanding precarity as: 1) rooted in concrete labour market experiences but also connected tobroader anxieties over social and political life; 2) a process-focused concept rather than end-statedescriptor; and 3) speaking to longer histories and wider geographies than its commonplace statusas a residual term or category implies. The analytical advantages of thinking in such a way areillustrated through a critical analysis of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2019 on the“changing nature of work”, and in particular its handling of digital labour.KEYWORDS: precarious work; politics of precarity; livelihoods; digital labour; gig economy

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