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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts +3 more
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Gig Economy and Income Inequality
The dramatic expansion of the gig economy in the United States has led to a transition from traditional labor markets to a more flexible structure creating opportunities for alternate income sources. While the gig economy provides more work opportunities
Thakur, Utsah
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective The Guidance for International Growth Standards (GIGS) project aims to improve and promote appropriate application of international growth standards across clinical, research and public health settings. Design A guidance document providing historical and conceptual context to support the appropriate application of international ...
Eric O. Ohuma +4 more
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Growth charts are commonly used for monitoring attained size at a specified age relative to a population average considered to represent expected growth. Objectives To evaluate the impact of the application of international growth charts for children under five on common growth metrics when compared to national reference charts ...
Bancy Ngatia, Linda Vesel, Eric O. Ohuma
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Fixed Pay for Output or Time? Implications for Work Speed and Quality
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the influence of two fixed payment arrangements—time‐based and output‐based wages—on worker behavior and performance in a multidimensional task setting. We examine how these wages affect the time workers spend on individual units of a task and their work quality.
CAROLYN DELLER, SANTIAGO GALLINO
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, 2018 The present project provides a survey of contemporary work relations in the context of the so-called gig economy (also known as the sharing, collaborative, platform, and on-demand economy).
Khreiche, Mario
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Smart Cities and Economic Development (by Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras)
Technology and a gig economy have affected how people are employed, with shorter-term, more flexible, and technologically mediated work arrangements increasingly becoming the norm.
Lytras, Miltiadis +3 more
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Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Studies of early case processing outcomes in the United States typically assume that decisions are made unilaterally by the prosecutor, such that prior contact with the legal system is universally associated with harsher outcomes for defendants.
R. R. Dunlea, Miranda A. Galvin
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The Meaning of Work in the Digital Era: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As digital technologies continue to reshape the nature of work, their impact on workers' experience of the meaning of work has attracted growing scholarly interest. However, the existing body of findings remains largely fragmented and conceptually inconsistent.
Yukun Liu +4 more
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