Publication: Working Without Borders: The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work
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Date
2023-07-24
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2023-07-24
Author(s)
Datta, Namita
Rong, Chen
Singh, Sunamika
Stinshoff, Clara
Iacob, Nadina
Nigatu, Natnael Simachew
Nxumalo, Mpumelelo
Klimaviciute, Luka
Abstract
Jobs are crucial for individual
well-being. They provide a livelihood and, equally
important, a sense of dignity. They are also crucial for
collective well-being and economic growth. Over the past
decade, technology has fundamentally shifted traditional
work patterns, creating new ways in which work is
contracted, performed, managed, scheduled, and remunerated.
New business models, digital platform firms, are allowing
the effects of technology to reach more people more quickly,
bringing economic opportunity to millions of people who do
not live in industrialized countries or even industrial
areas, simply with access to broadband and a digital device
(World Bank 2019). Digital labor platforms play a role in
the process of structural transformation especially by
triggering organizational and occupational transformations,
for example, by enhancing labor productivity and
formalization in service sectors (Nayyar,
Hallward-Driemeier, and Davies 2021). New forms of work,
known as gig jobs, enabled by digital platforms, have now
gained momentum (Eurofound 2020).
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“Datta, Namita; Rong, Chen; Singh, Sunamika; Stinshoff, Clara; Iacob, Nadina; Nigatu, Natnael Simachew; Nxumalo, Mpumelelo; Klimaviciute, Luka. 2023. Working Without Borders: The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/40066 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”