scholarly journals The sharing economy: the emerging debate in Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borja Suárez Corujo
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Spanish Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Previous Step

Abstract: Focusing attention on work-on-demand via apps, this article deals with the consequences of the slow emergence of the so-called sharing economy in Spain. As far as the labour field is concerned, it examines the advantages and risks that this new type of service provision (work?) entails and how Spanish law treats it as a previous step to reflect on the ability of the (labour) current regulation to secure ‘collaborators’ decent working conditions. By extension, it also analyzes the impact that thesedeveloping activities could have on the Social Security system, in terms of protection (or lack of it) and financial condition.Keywords: sharing economy, employee, employmen contract, social security.

Digital collaborative platforms: A challenge for both the legislator and the social partners in the Nordic model

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria Westregård
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Security Regulations

This paper focuses on the specific problems in the labour and social security legislation as it relates to crowdworkers in the digitalised new economy, analysing their place in labour market, and especially in the collective agreements which are the standard means of regulating working conditions in the Nordic model. Sweden has a binary system where a performing party is as either an employee or self-employed. The law on working and employment conditions offers only limited protection to those on short, fixed-term contracts; instead, it is social partners that have improved crowdworkers’ conditions in some industries by using collective bargaining. However, there are no collective agreements in the digital economy, or indeed for platform entrepreneurs. The complications of the parties’ positions will be analysed, especially as platforms do not consider themselves to be employers, but rather coordinators of the self-employed. It is not only labour law regulations that are important to prevent precariat among crowdworkers. It is also very important that the social security regulations adapt to the new labour market as the social security legislation is an important part of the Nordic model.

Risk tolerance and retirement income composition

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-151
Author(s):  
JONATHAN A. SCHWABISH ◽  
JULIE H. TOPOLESKI
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Security System ◽  
Earnings Distribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Retirement Funds ◽  
Lifetime Earnings ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARYProposed changes to the Social Security system will affect the financial risk workers will face in their retirement differently across the income distribution. This study examines levels of financial risk workers face at different points in the lifetime earnings distribution. To do so, we use a microsimulation model that projects individual demographic and economic characteristics within the context of the Social Security system and the macroeconomy to assess the impact of two policy changes on the levels of lifetime benefits available to current and future retirees. Further, we incorporate data on pensions and savings to illustrate differences in the level and distribution of retirement funds across the earnings distribution. This exercise allows us to assess the financial risk workers face in their retirement, both within the Social Security system itself and within a broader view of the stream of total available retirement funds. We also use survey data to show that low earners are the least willing to tolerate such risk.

scholarly journals Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Annette Hastings ◽  
Peter Matthews ◽  
Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
The Impact

A decade of austerity has amplified concern about who gets what from public services. The article considers the socio-economic and gendered impacts of cuts to local environmental services which have increased the need for citizens to report service needs and effectively ‘co-produce’ services. Via a case study of a UK council’s decade of administrative data on citizen requests and service responses, the article provides one of the first detailed analyses of the unfolding impact of austerity cuts over time on public service provision. It demonstrates the impact of austerity across the social gradient, but disproportionately on the least affluent, especially women. The article argues for the importance of detailed empirical examination of administrative data for making visible, and potentially tackling, long standing inequalities in public service provision.

scholarly journals Regime constitucional da assistência social

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Cristine Oliveira Teles
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Constitutional Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Constitutional System

Resumo: O presente artigo objetiva analisar o regime constitucional da Assistência Social para demonstrar o verdadeiro papel desse subsistema para assegurar o alcance do princípio da universalidade da cobertura e do atendimento, prescrito no artigo 194, parágrafo único, inciso I, da Constituição de 1988. Para tanto, parte-se da prescrição constitucional (artigo 201) de que a previdência social é devida ao trabalhador e seu dependente, mas que existe uma parte da população brasileira que não trabalha ou está em condições precárias de trabalho, e que demanda proteção social diante da sua situação de vulnerabilidade. Para desenvolver esta pesquisa, partiu-se do método dedutivo, em que a assistência social foi estudada preliminarmente no plano constitucional para, depois, ser compendiada a jurisprudência pátria com o intuito de obter resultados teóricos e empíricos da realidade da seguridade social no Brasil, especialmente em relação à concretização da assistência social na busca da universalização.Abstract: This article aims to analyze the constitutional system of Social Assistance to demonstrate the true role of this subsystem to ensure the scope of the principle of the universality of coverage and care, prescribed in article 194, sole paragraph, item I, of the 1988 Constitution, it is based on the constitutional prescription (article 201) that social security is due to the worker and his dependents, but that there is a part of the Brazilian population that does not work or is in precarious working conditions, and that demands social protection before the vulnerability. In order to develop this research, it was based on the deductive method, in which the social assistance was preliminarily studied at the constitutional level and then the country jurisprudence was summarized in order to obtain theoretical and empirical results of the social security situation in Brazil, especially in relation to the realization of social assistance in the search for universalization.

scholarly journals Key Policy Challenge : Social Security for Migrant Workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Anita Kristiana ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
International Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of this paper is to analyze various key policy approaches to extending social security to migrant workers. This paper reviews the social security system for migrant workers. It then attempts to policy approach for analysis. Finding this paper is to explore the impact of national and international policy and also social security agreements. The potential impact of the ratification of ILO and UN conventions on migrant workers, which ensure basic social and labor protection. The paper offers insight into the issue of some key policy challenges for the future, including for improved a fits design of social security.

scholarly journals Los retos de la política de dependencia en Francia = Challenges of dependency policy in France

2012 ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Eguzki Urteaga
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Resumen<br /><br />El riesgo de dependencia, que concierne a las personas mayores y discapacitadas, despierta un interés creciente entre los responsables políticos y se constatan unos avances significativos en esta materia: adecuación de los instrumentos de financiación, modernización de los centros y de los servicios de ayuda domiciliaria, mejora de la integración de estas personas, etc. Pero, el incremento de las necesidades cuando la generación de los baby-boomers llegará a una edad avanzada plantea la cuestión de la sostenibilidad del gasto, del impacto sobre las familias que supone la atención de una persona dependiente así como la de los medios específicos que es preciso movilizar para las personas que padecen la enfermedad de Alzheimer. El debate en torno al “quinto riesgo” gira sobre su naturaleza con respecto a los demás riesgos cubiertos por la Seguridad social, la población concernida, la parte que incumbe al público, a los hogares y a los seguros en la financiación. Ante esta situación, existen dos posibilidades en cuanto a la financiación de la dependencia: la primera caracterizada por el mantenimiento de una parte mayoritaria de la solidaridad colectiva, mientras que la segunda privilegia la solicitación del seguro privado y del seguro de previsión.<br /><br />Abstract<br /><br />The risk of dependency, which concerns the major and disabled persons, generates an increasing interest between the politicians and a few significant advances are observed in this matter: adequacy of the instruments of financing, modernization of the centers and services of domiciliary help, improvement of the integration of these persons, etc. But, the increase of the needs when the generation of the baby-boomers will come to an advanced age raises the question of the sustainability of the expense, the impact on the families that the attention of one dependent person supposes as well as the specific means that is precise to mobilize for the persons who suffer Alzheimer's disease. The debate concerning the "fifth risk" turns on his nature comparing with other risks covered by the social security, the concerned population, part that is incumbent on public, to the families and to the insurances in the financing. In front of this situation, two possibilities exist for the financing of the dependency: the first one characterized by the maintenance of a majority part of the collective solidarity, whereas the second one favours the solicitation of the private insurance and the insurance of forecast.

scholarly journals The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Zmyślony ◽  
Grzegorz Leszczyński ◽  
Anna Waligóra ◽  
Wiesław Alejziak
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

This article contributes to the discussion on the sustainability of the sharing economy by adopting the Social Capital Theory to expand explanations of the sharing economy’s role and scope of relations with local communities in the context of overtourism. As mutual relationships have not been fully recognized through a theoretical perspective, the article aims to examine the sustainability of the process of the sharing economy impacting urban tourism communities in light of Robert Putnam’s approach to Social Capital Theory. On the basis of a selective systematic review, the article discusses the sustainability of the sharing economy through the lens of bridging and bonding social capital. We argue that a new configuration of social capital, i.e., a sharing platform-modified social capital, arises from the unsustainable and disruptive power of the sharing economy implemented by virtual platforms, thereby contributing to an overtourism syndrome. However, from a medium- and long-term perspective, the sharing economy also impacts the bridging nature of social capital, which should lead to a more sustainable balance in its structure. This initial framework for understanding the impact of the sharing economy on sustainability of local communities provides an alternative approach to studying residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards tourism in the areas affected by overtourism.

Online Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Dariusz Jemielniak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Free Open Source

This chapter discusses three major changes resulting from the emerging communication technologies. It addresses the new forms of shaping relations online. Friendships, intimacy, the rise of weak ties, as well as an increased fluidity of relations are discussed. Next, the chapter addresses the demise of expert knowledge. Starting with McDonaldization of higher education and the rise of anti-intellectual sentiments, the chapter addresses the new trends in democratizing knowledge. While recognizing highly positive aspects of the turn, such as citizen science, Wikipedia, or free/open source movement, it also addresses the darker and more troubling processes, such as anti-scientific sentiments, pseudotheories, and the takeover of knowledge production and distribution by quacks. Finally, the chapter focuses on sharing economy. By problematizing the “sharing” premise, as well as by showing the impact of the ongoing change reaching far beyond economy itself, the chapter introduces the notion of collaborative society, as better covering the social change we witness.

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