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Changing Nature of Work and Employment in the Gig Economy: The Role of
A recent Boston consulting group (BCG) report 'summarizes that the gig economy has the potential to serve up to 90 million jobs (roughly 30% of India's non-farm workforce), add up to 1.25% to India's GDP in the long-run, and create millions of new jobs across all sectors of India's economy' (BCG Report, 2019, p. 10).
What is the gig economy?
What is the gig economy? Working 9 to 5. Is that any way to make a living? For an increasing percentage of American workers, the answer is no. Independent work is hardly a new phenomenon. But according to McKinsey's 2022 American Opportunity Survey, a full 36 percent of employed respondents—roughly 58 million Americans—identify as ...
The State of Gig Work in 2021
The State of Gig Work in 2021. 16% of Americans have ever earned money from an online gig platform. While most gig platform workers say they have had a positive experience with these jobs, some report facing on-the-job troubles like being treated rudely or sexually harassed. By Monica Anderson, Colleen McClain, Michelle Faverio and Risa Gelles ...
Gig work and gig workers: An integrative review and agenda for future
Gig workers have become an important component of the contemporary workforce and have generated extensive interest among researchers. ... Based on the literature review, we highlight six future research agendas. We also discuss practical implications for gig workers, traditional organizations, digital labor platforms, and society. CONFLICT OF ...
Full article: Freedom, domination and the gig economy
The gig economy. Whilst there is no single accepted definition of the gig economy, it has become particularly associated with the emergence of various online platforms, such as Uber, that allow individuals to access discrete jobs on-demand (Srnicek Citation 2017).Often classified as self-employed freelancers or 'independent contractors' rather than employees, those working in the gig ...
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors
The emergence of new forms of business, such as those advocating greater flexibility and typically described as being part of the gig-economy, has sparked interest in a range of debates about work sociology and the future of employment regulation (Graham et al., 2017).The gig-economy makes use of online platforms to provide various services (such as food delivery, cleaning, IT micro-tasks, etc ...
From surviving to thriving in the gig economy: A research agenda for
First, on a practical level, financial instability and job insecurity create a viability challenge for workers in the gig economy. While job insecurity has long been a topic of study (e.g., Ashford, Lee & Bobko, 1989; Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984) and is certainly present for many jobs in organizations today (Lee, Huang, & Ashford, 2018), it is a key defining attribute of an economy based on ...
The Gig Economy: Research and Policy Implications of Regional, Economic
Our broadest measure of gig economy workers, gig 3, is the same measure of gig economy workers employed by Katz & Krueger (2016). Using these measures, we find: The data show rapid growth in gig economy employment. From 2002 to 2014, while total employment increased 7.5 percent, gig economy workers increased by between 9.4 percent and 15.0 ...
Flexible working: Science in the gig economy
So it's grown very rapidly. For most of what academic scientists do, there hasn't been that big of a change. But in some areas, such as data science and technology work, the gig economy is having ...
The health of workers in the global gig economy
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 workers' experiences are more complex. They have access to very flexible, potentially ...
Full article: Systematic evaluation of gig work against decent work
Further, relatively little published research had covered its gig economy. To select platforms for rating, we undertook research in the two South African cities with the most gig economy activity - Cape Town and Johannesburg - to identify which platforms had the greatest presence. This was judged from available evidence of size of operation ...
How Does the Gig Economy Support Entrepreneurship?
In fact, researchers suggest that the gig economy supports and encourages more entrepreneurial activity, finding an increase of 4-6% in new business registrations following the arrival of the gig economy in a city. 5 In short, the gig economy provides services that people value, and it also has a spillover: It encourages entrepreneurial ...
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In the context of the debate on platform economy, on the one hand, and the gig economy, on the other, this paper delineates the conceptual boundaries of both concepts to query the gig economy research included in the Web of Science database. The initial search, cutoff date February 2020, targeting "gig economy" returned a sample of 378 papers dealing with the topic. The subsequent analysis ...
(PDF) Future of Gig Economy: Opportunities and Challenges
IMI Konnect V olume 9 (1) 2020. F uture of Gig Economy: Opportunities. and Challenges. Gobinda Roy* and Avinash K Shrivastava**. Abstract. The term "gig economy " is def ined by a market which ...
The rise of gig workers is changing the face of the US economy
Recently, local governments have attempted to bolster platform gig workers' protections. In June, New York City announced a minimum wage of $17.96 for app food delivery workers. DoorDash ...
The impact of Covid-19 on Gig economy
The Online Labor Index of Oxford University has been used as a measure of Gig Economy and daily record of new cases and deaths of Corona patients has been used as proxies for Covid-19. The world data for Gig economy ranges from July 1, 2019 to June 22, 2020 and the data regarding Covid-19 ranges from December 31, 2019 to June 22, 2020.
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Deliveroo judgment shows how gig economy platforms and courts are eroding workers' rights. Steve Rolf, University of Sussex and Jacqueline O'Reilly, University of Sussex. Experts say gig economy ...
Stress and the gig economy: it's not all shifts and giggles
Introduction. The gig economy is on the rise and includes various forms of contingent work arrangements, such as freelance and short-term work 2).The business models used in the gig economy aim to reduce labour costs such, as insurance and paid leave, and generally consider workers to be independent contractors 3).This provides a high level of flexibility for the employer and the workers ...
Full article: Musicians as Workers and the Gig Economy
Nonetheless, technology has unleashed the gig economy, which is "enabled by IT and make(s) use of the internet to match demand and supply of work and services at an extremely high speed" (De Stefano, "Rise" 475). The main effects of the gig economy can be seen in workers' employment status. This has spawned numerous legal cases that ...
Gig Economy
Gig economy refers to a new work environment adopted by young professionals. While the concept has many takers in developed countries, it is being encouraged in emerging economies as they look to improve their employment rate and economic value. Certain preconditions need to be met to ensure the success of gigs as a source of income. However, the outlook for this business model is positive and ...
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A recent Boston consulting group (BCG) report 'summarizes that the gig economy has the potential to serve up to 90 million jobs (roughly 30% of India's non-farm workforce), add up to 1.25% to India's GDP in the long-run, and create millions of new jobs across all sectors of India's economy' (BCG Report, 2019, p. 10).
What is the gig economy? Working 9 to 5. Is that any way to make a living? For an increasing percentage of American workers, the answer is no. Independent work is hardly a new phenomenon. But according to McKinsey's 2022 American Opportunity Survey, a full 36 percent of employed respondents—roughly 58 million Americans—identify as ...
The State of Gig Work in 2021. 16% of Americans have ever earned money from an online gig platform. While most gig platform workers say they have had a positive experience with these jobs, some report facing on-the-job troubles like being treated rudely or sexually harassed. By Monica Anderson, Colleen McClain, Michelle Faverio and Risa Gelles ...
Gig workers have become an important component of the contemporary workforce and have generated extensive interest among researchers. ... Based on the literature review, we highlight six future research agendas. We also discuss practical implications for gig workers, traditional organizations, digital labor platforms, and society. CONFLICT OF ...
The gig economy. Whilst there is no single accepted definition of the gig economy, it has become particularly associated with the emergence of various online platforms, such as Uber, that allow individuals to access discrete jobs on-demand (Srnicek Citation 2017).Often classified as self-employed freelancers or 'independent contractors' rather than employees, those working in the gig ...
The emergence of new forms of business, such as those advocating greater flexibility and typically described as being part of the gig-economy, has sparked interest in a range of debates about work sociology and the future of employment regulation (Graham et al., 2017).The gig-economy makes use of online platforms to provide various services (such as food delivery, cleaning, IT micro-tasks, etc ...
First, on a practical level, financial instability and job insecurity create a viability challenge for workers in the gig economy. While job insecurity has long been a topic of study (e.g., Ashford, Lee & Bobko, 1989; Greenhalgh & Rosenblatt, 1984) and is certainly present for many jobs in organizations today (Lee, Huang, & Ashford, 2018), it is a key defining attribute of an economy based on ...
Our broadest measure of gig economy workers, gig 3, is the same measure of gig economy workers employed by Katz & Krueger (2016). Using these measures, we find: The data show rapid growth in gig economy employment. From 2002 to 2014, while total employment increased 7.5 percent, gig economy workers increased by between 9.4 percent and 15.0 ...
So it's grown very rapidly. For most of what academic scientists do, there hasn't been that big of a change. But in some areas, such as data science and technology work, the gig economy is having ...
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 workers' experiences are more complex. They have access to very flexible, potentially ...
Further, relatively little published research had covered its gig economy. To select platforms for rating, we undertook research in the two South African cities with the most gig economy activity - Cape Town and Johannesburg - to identify which platforms had the greatest presence. This was judged from available evidence of size of operation ...
In fact, researchers suggest that the gig economy supports and encourages more entrepreneurial activity, finding an increase of 4-6% in new business registrations following the arrival of the gig economy in a city. 5 In short, the gig economy provides services that people value, and it also has a spillover: It encourages entrepreneurial ...
In the context of the debate on platform economy, on the one hand, and the gig economy, on the other, this paper delineates the conceptual boundaries of both concepts to query the gig economy research included in the Web of Science database. The initial search, cutoff date February 2020, targeting "gig economy" returned a sample of 378 papers dealing with the topic. The subsequent analysis ...
IMI Konnect V olume 9 (1) 2020. F uture of Gig Economy: Opportunities. and Challenges. Gobinda Roy* and Avinash K Shrivastava**. Abstract. The term "gig economy " is def ined by a market which ...
Recently, local governments have attempted to bolster platform gig workers' protections. In June, New York City announced a minimum wage of $17.96 for app food delivery workers. DoorDash ...
The Online Labor Index of Oxford University has been used as a measure of Gig Economy and daily record of new cases and deaths of Corona patients has been used as proxies for Covid-19. The world data for Gig economy ranges from July 1, 2019 to June 22, 2020 and the data regarding Covid-19 ranges from December 31, 2019 to June 22, 2020.
Deliveroo judgment shows how gig economy platforms and courts are eroding workers' rights. Steve Rolf, University of Sussex and Jacqueline O'Reilly, University of Sussex. Experts say gig economy ...
Introduction. The gig economy is on the rise and includes various forms of contingent work arrangements, such as freelance and short-term work 2).The business models used in the gig economy aim to reduce labour costs such, as insurance and paid leave, and generally consider workers to be independent contractors 3).This provides a high level of flexibility for the employer and the workers ...
Nonetheless, technology has unleashed the gig economy, which is "enabled by IT and make(s) use of the internet to match demand and supply of work and services at an extremely high speed" (De Stefano, "Rise" 475). The main effects of the gig economy can be seen in workers' employment status. This has spawned numerous legal cases that ...
Gig economy refers to a new work environment adopted by young professionals. While the concept has many takers in developed countries, it is being encouraged in emerging economies as they look to improve their employment rate and economic value. Certain preconditions need to be met to ensure the success of gigs as a source of income. However, the outlook for this business model is positive and ...