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Gig Workers versus Knowledge Workers
2023Abstract To manage workers in the gig economy, we must understand the various types of gig workers and how they perform. This chapter focuses on the many types of gig workers and how professional gig workers overlap with knowledge workers in the knowledge economy.
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2023
This chapter explores gig workers' opinions in terms of the adoption of online platforms for their work. Based on a qualitative research method, this research study has collected secondary data for the purpose of analyzing them with thematic analysis. A total review of 127 were selected using simple random sampling method.
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This chapter explores gig workers' opinions in terms of the adoption of online platforms for their work. Based on a qualitative research method, this research study has collected secondary data for the purpose of analyzing them with thematic analysis. A total review of 127 were selected using simple random sampling method.
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Challenge, 2018
Barring major new regulations on employers, the gig economy is bound to grow rapidly—and the gig workforce with it.
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Barring major new regulations on employers, the gig economy is bound to grow rapidly—and the gig workforce with it.
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The legal status of gig workers
Kwartalnik Prawa Międzynarodowego, 2023The legal status of gig workers has been controversial for years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it a priority. The role of the market economy has changed: work based on digital platforms has become an employment option for many people. At the international level, the protection of this particular category of employees is determined by the general ...
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Dynamics of Gig Work Economy: An Investigation of Worker Perspectives on Gig Work
IIMS Journal of Management Science, 2022Online technology has developed to an extent where traditional labor markets have transformed, creating opportunities for people and businesses to participate in the global marketplace by employing contract labor. Application-based transportation including ridesharing apps, food and commodity delivery platform apps, and other consumer-facing services ...
Sini V. Pillai, Drishya Dev
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Gig Workers and the Knowledge Economy
2023Abstract This chapter examines prior studies on various types of knowledge, knowledge workers, and the knowledge economy. One must have a clear grasp of the function of knowledge workers and human capital in the knowledge economy and how the organisation should manage to gain from knowledge workers and their knowledge to prepare the ...
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Older Workers and the Gig Economy
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019As the workforce ages, how will the work lives of older people evolve? One way to ease into retirement is to move to the gig economy where workers choose hours and intensity of work that fit their needs and capabilities. However, older workers are often reaping the benefits of the latter end of an implicit contract while gig economy workers are paid ...
Cody Cook, Rebecca Diamond, Paul Oyer
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Embracing the gig workers performance: an empirical investigation of location-based gig workers
Global Knowledge, Memory and CommunicationPurposeThe aim of the study is to investigate the impact of job characteristics on gig worker performance in India. In addition, this study examines the role of work–life balance as a mediator in exploring the impact of job characteristics, namely, flexibility and job autonomy and person–job fit on gig workers performance among location-based gig ...
Shravani Guduru, Nivethitha Santhanam
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2017
We study the compensation of gig workers in a natural field experiment. To derive testable predictions, this paper presents a formal model capturing a central feature of online freelance work: gig work- ers' ability to choose both how much to work and how big an e¤ort to make.
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We study the compensation of gig workers in a natural field experiment. To derive testable predictions, this paper presents a formal model capturing a central feature of online freelance work: gig work- ers' ability to choose both how much to work and how big an e¤ort to make.
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Mechanical Turk and the gig economy: exploring differences between gig workers
Journal of Managerial Psychology, 2019PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an investigation of how different types of gig workers engage in the gig economy. Specifically, the authors distinguish between workers who view gig work as primary income (or not) and those workers who view it as a job (or not).Design/methodology/approachIn total, 1,190 Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers ...
Melissa G. Keith, Peter Harms, Louis Tay
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