The Situation of Workers in the Collaborative Economy
The collaborative economy (or “platform economy”), encompassing work-on-demand via apps like Uber and crowdwork like Amazon Mechanical Turk, has grown exponentially in recent years, thanks to the development of high-speed networks, the exploitation of big data and the availability of mobile devices, which have cut down transaction costs and allow for real-time effective matching of supply and demand. While creating many new opportunities for digital and physical services, which have, thanks to lower costs as compared to established operators, rather expanded the market for services instead of crowding out the incumbents, this new digitally based economy has also raised questions on the situation of workers. As this literature review shows, their legal status (either as employees or self-employed) is often unclear, and negative effects on the labour market can be witnessed (such as missing social protection, low remuneration of work, questionable work-life balance and more). Many of these effects are due to the functioning of the digital economy, which relies on micro-tasks, trust-inducing mechanisms as ratings and - at times opaque - algorithms. The literature review also presents policy solutions as discussed in recent literature.
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- ANGAJARE ÎN MUNCĂ ŞI CONDIŢII DE MUNCĂ
- calificare profesională
- COMERŢ
- comerț electronic
- comunicaţii
- condiții de muncă
- discriminare rasială
- discriminare sexuală
- DREPT
- dreptul muncii şi relaţii de muncă
- dreptul securității sociale
- drepturile individului
- ECONOMIE
- economie colaborativă
- EDUCAŢIE COMUNICARE ŞI COMUNICAŢII
- FINANŢE
- fiscalitate
- impozit pe venit
- informatică şi procesarea datelor
- informaţia şi prelucrarea informaţiei
- marketing
- organizarea muncii şi a condiţiilor de muncă
- piaţa muncii
- PROBLEME SOCIALE
- protecţie socială
- protecția datelor
- reprezentarea salariaților
- site Internet
- statut profesional
- structură economică