Using microdata from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Population Census, this paper explores how spatial characteristics are correlated with temporary employment outcomes for Canada's immigrant population. Results from ordinary least square regression models suggest that census...

This paper traces the development of freelance platform work in the Russian Federation based on unique data from four online surveys conducted over the period 2009 and 2019 via the leading platform for creative and knowledge-based work and analyses the working conditions and well-being of the...

Sharing economy online labor platforms play a critical role in bringing together freelancers and potential employers. This research is one of the few studies to address how freelancers' characteristics impact the likelihood of being hired by employers using the theory of person-environment fit...

Online labour platforms are redefining the world of work, but little is known even now about the drivers of worker engagement in this type of activity. Earlier studies focused on individual preferences and job characteristics such as flexibility or low entry barriers, but the relative role of...

Flexibility is recognized as one of the major shifts in the future of work. As emerging forms and structures of work challenge us to rethink how work is organized, specifically through the digitization of work by digital platforms, we are witnessing shifts in workplaces that challenge common...

The gig economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the gaps between natives and migrants, who...

Negotiations are a valuable and important tool for increasing the voice of workers in the informal economy. This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy. These practices demonstrate that...

There is little knowledge about the shape, prominence and drivers of work-to-work transitions in low- and middle-income countries. This paper examines these elements in the context of South Africa and Indonesia - two middle-income countries with similar development levels yet different labour...

Gig economy platforms compete to source labor from common pools of workers, and workers multihome by dynamically allocating their services in real-time across multiple platforms. The question of how workers choose between competing platforms has grown in salience. However, understanding workers'...

The report highlights the precarious nature of gig work and dismantles the idea of ‘flexibility’ which has often been touted as the reason for popularity of the gig economy for workers across the globe and especially considered suitable for women workers. Workers continue to be deprived of...

Attempts to investigate working conditions and labour rights in the UK gig economy have been hampered by the hard-to-reach nature of this population. Most existing studies have overcome this difficulty by using a qualitative research design where sample size is less important. When UK...

The emergence of the internet-enabled platform economy has led to a significant increase in the availability of online mediated gig work opportunities. This covers a wide spectrum of working arrangements like casual work, platform dependent self-employment, informal work, piecework, etc.,...

A range of evidence suggests that non-standard jobs, including fixed-term and other temporary jobs such as casual jobs, pay lower wages than more standard, permanent jobs, even after controlling for differences in worker and job characteristics. A recent literature suggests this is also the case...

Purpose: This study asks whether lower quality forms of employment lead to career transitions into higher quality forms of employment acting as steppingstones, or bridges or, whether instead they lead to dead-ends, or traps, in which workers move between unstable jobs with low prospects for...