What do platforms do? Understanding the gig economy

S Vallas, JB Schor - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its
consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the …

Where platform capitalism and racial capitalism meet: The sociology of race and racism in the digital society

T McMillan Cottom - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and
robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy …

[图书][B] The great reversal: How America gave up on free markets

T Philippon - 2019 - degruyter.com
American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas
Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by …

[图书][B] Ghost work: How to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass

ML Gray, S Suri - 2019 - books.google.com
In the spirit ofNickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human
workforce that powers the web--and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden …

Next generation digital platforms: toward human-AI hybrids

A Rai, P Constantinides, S Sarker - Mis Quarterly, 2019 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
We illustrate the emergent spectrum of human–AI hybrids in digital platforms and discuss
some implications for IS research by using one classof digital platforms: digital labor …

[图书][B] After the gig: How the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back

J Schor - 2020 - books.google.com
Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book The dark side of the gig economy (Uber …

Monopsony in labor markets: A review

A Manning - ILR Review, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers' interest in monopsony has increased in recent years. This article reviews the
accumulating evidence that employers have considerable monopsony power. It summarizes …

Labor market concentration

J Azar, I Marinescu, M Steinbaum - Journal of Human Resources, 2022 - jhr.uwpress.org
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor
market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the …

Labor market power

D Berger, K Herkenhoff, S Mongey - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We develop, estimate, and test a tractable general equilibrium model of oligopsony with
differentiated jobs and concentrated labor markets. We estimate key model parameters by …

Concentration in US labor markets: Evidence from online vacancy data

J Azar, I Marinescu, M Steinbaum, B Taska - Labour Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Using data on the near-universe of US online job vacancies collected by Burning Glass
Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl …