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Government Responses to the Platform Economy: Where do we stand? CEPS Policy Insight No 2017-30/July 2017 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The introduction of the platform economy in Europe has sparked debate on the challenges it raises for workers, companies, social partners, governments and other stakeholders, and how these challenges can be addressed.
Lenaerts, Karolien   +2 more
core  

Exit to community : strategies for multi-stakeholder ownership in the platform economy

open access: yes, 2020
Published online: May 2021The platform economy is facing a crisis of accountability. Large Internet platforms, once regarded as sources of hope for democratic social movements or engines of a promising new economy—or, at worst, just superficial ...
Morshed Mannan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Platform Economy and COVID-19: A Look at Delivery, Home Care, and Online Freelance Work in Spain and Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in the digital economy that were not anticipated for another five or ten years and has upended daily life, introducing new social dynamics and consumption patterns.
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source

Solutions for Regulating Labor Relations in the Platform Economy: Iranian Ride-hailing Platform Business [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول
The emergence of Platform Businesses (PBs) has caused a conflict of interest between traditional and new economic players, so, based on the public interest theories to establish justice, the need for government intervention through regulation is ...
Farideh Anvari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)‐based Cartilage Segmentation Predicting Knee Replacement

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective For cartilage morphology to serve as a scalable endpoint in clinical trials, analyses should be performed automatically without human interaction. To clinically validate artificial intelligence (AI)‐based analysis, we studied cartilage loss from MRI prior to knee replacement.
Felix Eckstein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

open access: yes, 2022
Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on
Ghosh, Anweshaa   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Assessment of export-embodied CO2 emissions from China’s ocean industries: implications for formulating sustainable ocean policies

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
The ocean industries are characterized by being export-driven. The exports of ocean industries (hereafter termed ocean exports) caused environmental pollution with amounts of CO2 emissions and thereby affected climate change.
Li Zheng   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paradoxical Autonomy in Japan’s Platform Economy [PDF]

open access: yesScience, Technology and Society, 2019
Crowdsourcing firms, their client firms and the government in Japan have advocated that crowd work provides opportunities for workers to enjoy autonomous working practices, enabling subpopulations such as women and the elderly who would otherwise be excluded from the labour market to find employment. This is far from the case. Instead, crowdsourcing is
openaire   +3 more sources

A Simplified Laminar Flow Model for the Pultrusion of Glass Fiber/Polyethylene Terephthalate Commingled Yarns

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A simplified thermoplastic pultrusion model is developed to predict thermal fields in glass fiber/polyethylene terephthalate (GF/PET) composites with reduced computational cost. By combining effective material homogenization, validation against literature data, and Gaussian‐process‐based optimization, the study reveals how heating limits, pulling speed,
Elder Soares   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positioning rural geography into platform economies : Why we need to ask new questions when researching the rural platform economy

open access: yes
A rapidly growing body of work explores platform-mediated economy and work under the umbrella term ‘Platform Urbanism’. This focus and academic discourse risk keeping digital spaces and practices in the rural context in the shadow or subordinated to ...
Zhang, Qian,   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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