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Regulating labour platforms, the data deficit

European Journal of Government and Economics

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Title Regulating labour platforms, the data deficit
 
Creator Hawley, Adrian John
 
Subject Data; gig economy; social market; labour platforms; public policy; soft power
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Description It is widely reported that there is a data deficit regarding working conditions in the gig economy. It is known, however, that workers are disadvantaged because they are not classed as employees with the result that they lack work-related entitlements and may not be protected by the social welfare safety net. Nor is this compatible with the social market economy enshrined in the European Union treaties. Two obstacles are that labour law and social policy are mainly a national competence and that platforms are reluctant to share data with regulators. In this paper I take the specific case of offline labour platforms intermediated by app and smart phone such as driving and delivering and look for new pathways between access to data and the shaping of public policy in member states with potentially legal certainty.
 
Publisher Europa Grande
 
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Date 2018-06-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ejge.org/index.php/ejge/article/view/ejge.2018.7.1.170
 
Source European Journal of Government and Economics; Vol 7, No 1 (2018); 5-23
2254-7088
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ejge.org/index.php/ejge/article/view/ejge.2018.7.1.170/81
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Adrian John Hawley
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