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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsDigital gig platforms grant gig workers greater autonomy and flexibility, yet they also introduce challenges such as self-management and feelings of isolation, making social support increasingly vital within gig work.
Shanshan Zhao +3 more
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Social InclusionIn this article, we examine the lived experiences of precariousness in gig work, a growing sector of the modern labor market, through the case of Latvia, a former Soviet republic that has experienced radical neo‐liberalization over the last 30 years ...
Iveta Ķešāne, Maija Spuriņa
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Career adaptability in the context of horizontal skill mismatch: evidence from food delivery gig workers [PDF]
Quality Education for AllPurposeThe gig economy offers flexible, autonomous and short-term employment. It offers employment opportunities for workers interested in non-conventional work patterns.
Divya S, Barani G, RathnaKumar L
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Women in gig economy work less in the evenings
Scientific Reports, 2022 AbstractWomen have been systematically disadvantaged in the labour market. This could be explained by a complex association of factors, such as the lower speed of women’s professional growth within companies, their under-representation in management positions, and the unequal distribution of caregiving and housework between men and women.
Sofia Dokuka +3 more
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New Face of Job Quality Challenge in India: Gig Worker Studies
Journal of Indonesian Applied Economics, 2023 Purpose This research aims to describe the gig worker challenge and opportunity including job quality in India remembering that gig work is spreading rapidly among nations and has been the source of earning for most of the destitute population ...
Farhat Haque, Abdul Rahman Dard
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Job demands-resources on digital gig platforms and counterproductive work behavior
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionWith the rapid expansion of digital gig platforms, counterproductive work behavior among gig workers has become increasingly prominent, adversely impacting the platform’s reputation, operational efficiency, and user experience.
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Making Live through the Gig: The Case of Comfort Taxis in Singapore
Lateral, 2023 Against the scholarly emphasis on precariousness, this article focuses on how gig work in 1970s Singapore was developed with the specific vision of enabling life for the working-class Singaporean family-man.
Renyi Hong, Zachary Chan Mun Wei
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J@ti Undip: Jurnal Teknik IndustriEkonomi gig merupakan fenomena dalam bidang pekerjaan baru yang muncul akibat dorongan tren digitalisasi. Orang yang melakukan pekerjaan berbasis gig ekonomi disebut sebagai gig worker.
Nopia Tarigas, Markus Hartono
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The health of workers in the global gig economy
Globalization and Health, 2018 Background The “gig” economy connects consumers with contractors (or workers) through online platform businesses to perform tasks (or “gigs”). This innovation in technology provides businesses and consumers access to low-cost, on-demand labour, but gig ...
Uttam Bajwa +3 more
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The gig economy comes to academia: Job satisfaction among adjunct faculty
Cogent Education, 2020 Colleges and universities in the United States have embraced the “gig” economy with use of non-tenure track and part-time faculty. However, much of the work on job satisfaction in academia focuses on tenure-line professors. This study seeks to answer the
Gesemia Nelson +2 more
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