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Work in the Platform Economy: Beyond Lower Transaction Costs

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  • Jan Drahokoupil

    (European Trade Union Institute)

  • Agnieszka Piasna

    (European Trade Union Institute)

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Work on platforms is part of a wider trend towards the increasing fragmentation of work. It takes different forms, ranging from short spells of employment with the same employer to moving between different work arrangements to juggling multiple jobs at the same time. In all its forms, it signals an increasing job instability and is often fuelled by insufficient income from one job to cover the cost of living.

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  • Jan Drahokoupil & Agnieszka Piasna, 2017. "Work in the Platform Economy: Beyond Lower Transaction Costs," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 52(6), pages 335-340, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:intere:v:52:y:2017:i:6:d:10.1007_s10272-017-0700-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10272-017-0700-9
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    8. Valeria Cirillo & Dario Guarascio & Zachary Parolin, 2021. "Platform Work and Economic Insecurity: Evidence from Representative Italian Survey Data," Working Papers in Public Economics 208, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.
    9. Karol MUSZYŃSKI & Valeria PULIGNANO & Markieta DOMECKA & Adam MROZOWICKI, 2022. "Coping with precarity during COVID‐19: A study of platform work in Poland," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 161(3), pages 463-485, September.
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    13. Frolov, Daniil, 2019. "Блокчейн и институциональная сложность: постинституционализм vs. неоинституционализм," MPRA Paper 95963, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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