Abstract This paper introduces the concept of platform auxiliaries to identify a set of actors that provide independent resources explicitly designed to support complementors in their value creation and capture activities. Platform auxiliaries capitalize on unmet needs of complementors within platforms, offering services such as third‐party software ...
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Reply to Letter Regarding "Patterns and Prevention of Occupational Eye Injuries: A Narrative Review" [Response to Letter]. [PDF]
Vought V, Vought R, Zarbin F, Khouri AS.
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Output Gap Uncertainty, Sovereign Risk Premia and the Contingent Importance of the Bond Vigilantes
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the implications of output gap uncertainty for the conduct of fiscal policy using a small‐scale macroeconomic model with boundedly rational agents. Specifically, agents use an adaptive updating mechanism to approximate the unobservable potential output that suffers, similarly to the Hodrick and Prescott (1997) filter ...
Christian R. Proaño, Jonas Dix
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Voice in the algorithmic era: how perceived algorithmic control influences gig workers' voice behavior. [PDF]
Liang T, Zhang Y, Xiang D, Zhu L.
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From physical workplaces to virtual communities: extending the job embeddedness construct and predicting digital makers' continuance participation. [PDF]
Bi Z, Liu X, Yang J.
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Migration, Advanced Digital Technologies, and the Future of Work. [PDF]
Triandafyllidou A.
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Occupational and psychosocial risk factors for depression among uninsured middle-aged food delivery riders. [PDF]
Long H, Yang Y, Chen L, Luo S, Lai H.
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Service encounters and the manufacture of harm: violence in the service economy under late-modernity. [PDF]
Miles L, Azad M.
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