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Understanding Online Freelancers' Labour Agency at the Intersection of Platforms, Wider Labour Markets, and Households: Evidence From the Philippines

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on the labour agency of remote‐based online freelancers has often struggled to account for the interplay between platform dynamics, broader labour market conditions, and gendered household responsibilities. This article addresses this gap by proposing an integrated analytical framework that synthesises these dimensions to examine how ...
Jorien H. Oprins
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive & Behavioral Assessment Toolbox (CBAT): An open‐source platform supporting experiments in computational psychiatry

open access: yesPsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, EarlyView.
Aims Large‐scale behavioral experiments are increasingly recognized as essential in psychiatric research based on a transdiagnostic dimensional view of mental disorders. However, advanced programming skills and substantial financial resources are usually needed to conduct such experiments, posing a barrier for new researchers.
Asako Toyama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tightening the Regulatory Grip: Local Regulatory Stringency and Sectoral Platform Regulation in EU Cities

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Platform companies like Uber and Airbnb are depicted as agile policy entrepreneurs who can navigate the boundaries of regulatory frameworks and manipulate regulations to their advantage; however, recent empirical studies suggest that their capacity to influence policy depends on the particular political and institutional context.
Eliska Drapalova, Kai Wegrich
wiley   +1 more source

‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Catalyst for More Comprehensive Unemployment Benefits for the Self‐Employed in Scandinavia?

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although welfare state developments are often researched as long‐term processes, crises such as the pandemic may induce short‐term reactions with long‐term effects. This article delves into the changes made to the income security of self‐employed workers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the pandemic and throughout 2023. The social partners
Kristin Jesnes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surprising Results from Large Crowds Using Micro-Purchase Challenges - Using Contests on Freelancing Communities to Source Innovative, Impactful and Cost-Effective Solutions [PDF]

open access: yes
Our world is more connected than ever before. The new digital economy is empowering platforms and crowds to become a progressively strategic way for organizations to innovate ahead of their competition.
Phillips, Peter   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A Qualitative Study of Divergent Workplace Practices Following South Korea's 52‐h Working Time Reform

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Korea is known for its strong work‐centric culture, having long recorded some of the longest working hours in the OECD based on its norm of overtime work. Against this backdrop, the 52‐h working time reform, consisting of 40 standard and 12 overtime hours, was introduced in 2018.
Youngcho Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Professionals and the Ethics of Workplace Surveillance

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Steve Clarke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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