scholarly journals Incentives in the gig economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-163
Author(s):  
Péter Kerényi
Keyword(s):  
Incentive Contracts ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Contract ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The Relationship

Fixed-term, contract-based employment is continuously spreading in the world. It has been given many names; in this paper it is termed the gig economy in the most comprehensive sense. We are going to present the basic features of the gig economy with special attention to short-term, incentive contracts affecting the relationship between employer and worker. In the gig economy employers use performance related wage to incentivise workers to work with the required intensity. By that incentive, employers also source out their risk to their workers whose wages and all their employment becomes uncertain. We are presenting in the paper that uncertainty arising out of short-term incentive contracts is the cause of many psychological and social ills.

Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110346
Author(s):  
Luci Pangrazio ◽  
Cameron Bishop ◽  
Fiona Lee
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
Short Term Contract ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Work And Life

This article analyses the representation of the gig economy in three Australian newspapers from 2014 to 2019. ‘Gig work’ is defined as short term, contract or freelance employment and is seen by many social institutions as the future of work. Drawing on a corpus of 426 articles, Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory is used to examine the construction of the ‘gig economy’ in the cultural imaginary. Five key elements emerge, including: demographics of workers; working conditions; workers’ rights; resistance and regulation; and change and disruption. Despite multiple competing discourses evident across the newspapers, each constructs the gig economy as an inexorable phase in the evolution of the relationship between capital and the worker. The article critically analyses the construction of the discourse, including the difficulties of regulating gig economy platforms and the narrative of inevitability used to describe changes to work and life brought about by technology.

scholarly journals The Spread of Gig Economy: Trends and Effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Nilanjan Banik ◽  
◽  
Milind Padalkar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Alternative Employment ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Main Effects

The development of online communication platforms has given rise to the phenomenon of the gig economy. A new economic model that embraces a variety of forms of short-term employment is rapidly spreading around the world, becoming an everyday reality and transforming the labor market. The article analyzes the factors influencing the dynamics of this process and its main effects. Testing the main hypothesis showed that the development of technological infrastructure, despite its importance, does not fully explain the unevenness of the penetration of the gig economy and the variations in its impact upon different sectors, professions, and skill levels. Gig economy drivers are subject to further study, but already now we can state the need for targeted measures to adapt the economy to the new model, including retraining or creating alternative employment opportunities for “traditional” workers giving up jobs in favor of gig-employed ones.

scholarly journals Bureaucracy and Growth

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (14) ◽  
pp. 2246-2282
Author(s):  
Agnes Cornell ◽  
Carl Henrik Knutsen ◽  
Jan Teorell
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Base ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Precise Estimation ◽  
Large N ◽  
The World ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Sufficient Variation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Country Specific

We revisit the hypothesis that a Weberian bureaucracy enhances economic growth. Theoretically, we develop arguments for why such a bureaucracy may enhance growth and discuss plausible counterarguments. Empirically, we use new measures capturing various Weberian features in countries across the world, with some time series extending back to 1789. The evidence base from previous large- N studies is surprisingly thin, but our extensive data enable us to move beyond the problematic cross-country correlations used in previous studies. Hence, we conduct tests that control for country-specific characteristics while ensuring sufficient variation on the slow-moving bureaucracy variables to enable precise estimation. Our analysis suggests that previous cross-country regressions have vastly overstated the strength of the relationship. While this casts uncertainty on the proposition that there is an effect of Weberian bureaucracy on growth, our further analysis suggests that—if an effect exists—it may operate in the short term and be stronger in recent decades.

scholarly journals ВІРШОВАНИЙ ТЕКСТ ЯК ОБ’ЄКТ ЛІНГВІСТИЧНОГО ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ

World Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2(54)) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Ходаковська Н. Г.
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Aspect ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Integral Feature

The article provides an overview of modern theories of the artistic expression of verse texts. The inseparable connection of form and content has been established as an integral feature of the artistic speech of the verse text. The basic features of the verse text are identified, namely the relationship of sound and content organization, the interrelation of the meter and the theme. On the basis of the analysis the formalistic and structuralist approaches for the study of the form and content of the verse text are distinguished; the system-structural direction in which the verse text is conceived as a whole; the linguopoietic direction determines the interaction of the form and content of the verse text, and its linguistic elements cause an aesthetic effect. The aesthetic aspect of the poem is considered in the dialectical unity of cognitive and imaginative combinatorics. The purpose of linguoconceptology is to study the processes of conceptualization of the world (society, culture). An approach related to the semantic features of verbal text usage reveals their role in creating a verbal image.

scholarly journals ESG and Corporate Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from China’s Listed Power Generation Companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhong Zhao ◽  
Yu Guo ◽  
Jiahai Yuan ◽  
Mengya Wu ◽  
Daiyu Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Power Market ◽  
Panel Regression ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Risk ◽  
The Relationship

Nowadays, listed companies around the world are shifting from short-term goals of maximizing profits to long-term sustainable environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. People have come to realize that ESG has become an important source of the corporate risk and may affect the company’s financial performance and profitability. Recent research shows that good ESG performance could improve the financial performance in some countries. Yet, the question of “how does ESG affect financial performance” has not been thoroughly discussed and studied in China. In this article, we study China’s listed power generation groups to explore the relationship between ESG performance and financial indicators in the energy power market based on the panel regression model. The results show that good ESG performance can indeed improve financial performance, which has significant meanings for investors, company management, decisionmakers, and industry regulators.

scholarly journals Heidegger, the Given, and the Second Nature of Entities

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-274
Author(s):  
Graham Bounds
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Epistemic Justification ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Space Of Reasons ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In this paper I draw from Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology of the 1920s to outline some basic features of his theory of intentionality that I believe have not been fully appreciated or utilized, and that allow for both novel and fruitful interventions in questions about meaning, the relationship between mind and the world, and epistemic justification, principally as they appear in John McDowell’s synoptic project in Mind and World. I argue that while elements of McDowell’s picture are ultimately unsatisfying and problematic, much of his conceptual framework can and should be put into dialogue with Heidegger’s, and that in so doing we make available powerful resources for amending the McDowellian account. Moreover, these emendations have attractive implications for his distinctive desiderata. In particular, they provide original conceptions of normativity’s place in nature, of the boundaries of the space of reasons, and of the relationship between the answerability of thought both to the world and to human beings as a rational community.

Liquid uncertainty, chaos and complexity: The gig economy and the open source movement

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Antony Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Source Model ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Live Music ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Key Aspects

The gig economy has become a hot topic. The term itself derives from the world of entertainment, particularly live music, where performers striving for recognition hope to get a few ‘gigs’ – i.e. short-term and sporadic opportunities for paid employment, with the understanding that such engagements are limited and without any future obligation on either party – employer or employee. This seemingly gives both parties significant autonomy, albeit not in equal measure. Indeed, the terms ‘employer’ and ‘employee’, with respective connotations of extended and enduring responsibility, and mutual (if unequal) obligation, are hotly disputed. Are they self-employed contractors or employees of the company? In what follows, I show how key aspects of Zygmunt Bauman’s work prepare us for an understanding and appreciation of the gig economy, and other more extensive ramifications; particularly those exemplified in the success of the Open Source model, and its potential – or not – to provide the basis for new institutional forms appropriate and acceptable for our current context.

scholarly journals Sustainability and wellbeing: the dynamic relationship between subjective wellbeing and sustainability indicators

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Mubashir Qasim ◽  
Arthur Grimes
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Weak Sustainability ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Near Term ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Adjusted Net Savings

Abstract We analyse the relationship between individuals' subjective wellbeing (SWB) and measures of their country's sustainability. SWB data are sourced from the World Values Survey; sustainability is measured by ecological footprint (EF) and by components of the World Bank's adjusted net savings (ANS) series. ANS, a measure of weak sustainability, represents changes in a country's capital stock including financial, physical, human and natural capital. We show that an increase in strong sustainability, measured by EF and by ANS's natural capital component, is associated with reductions in SWB over the next decade followed by a rebound in SWB over the subsequent decade. We show also that the perfect substitutability assumptions on which ANS is calculated do not hold. Our findings highlight an important political challenge: governments that run sustainable policies may decrease the near-term wellbeing of citizens. This can reduce government's short-term popularity even though the improved sustainability may raise future wellbeing.

scholarly journals Análise e previsão da série recebimento e produção de leite da usina escola de laticínios da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - RS

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Gilvete Wolf Lírio ◽  
Danton Pierret ◽  
Vanusa Beatriz Hackenhaar Pierret ◽  
Adriano Mendonça Souza ◽  
Wesley Vieira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Class A ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
New Strategies

The world globalization bring to the market and to thebusiness class a great phase of adaptation and search for newtechnologies to guaranty the quality of its products. The statistics isa useful tool to help to maintain the quality in a process or service.This way is possible to reduce costs and maintain the clients satisfied.The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the milk received and the milk processed in the Usina de Laticínios de Santa Maria to forecast the next value. The data were daily collected since may/2002 till jul/2002 in a total of 83 observations, and were analyzed using the dynamic regression analysis. The results obtained was possible to forecast and better plan the production of milk received to be processed. That way the manager can accept or reject a new orders and can make a new strategies to avoid difficulties in a short term.

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

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