offer new employment and income-generating opportunities. The platform economy's role in structural change is not yet clear …

. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the …

, exploiting matched administrative and survey data with individual-level information on UB receipt, formal and informal employment … by a permanent shift of UB recipients towards informal employment, where they earn substantially lower wages. We then … employment. However, the disincentive effects are small and short-lived. Because of the high insurance value and the low …

In recent years, China's labour market has seen a significant rise of the new forms of employment, which differs in … employment patterns in China, including app-based gig work, micro-task crowdsourcing, prosumer work, and platform outsourcing to …

proportion of workers in an employment relationship. …

, patterns of employment relationships, and working conditions, while comparing the two types of homework, and female and male …