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Crowd Employment and ICT-Based Mobile Work—New Employment Forms in Europe

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Policy Implications of Virtual Work

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Europe is characterized by an increasing diversity of employment forms. Some of them are driven by technological developments, like crowd employment (supply and demand for paid labor matched on online platforms) and ICT-based mobile work (work outside of the premises of the employer or client, with the support of modern technologies and less place-bound than telework). They have both positive and negative effects on the working conditions of the affected workers that should be (better) considered by policy makers to protect workers.

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    Only in one of the available definitions for related employment concepts, the aspect of ‘working partly, but regularly outside the main office’ was operationalized. Further research on this employment form might require a more specific definition to allow for better data provision.

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  1. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co., Dublin, D18 KP65, Ireland

    Irene Mandl

  2. Policy and Research Division, Ecorys Ltd, 4 St. Dunstan’s Hill, London, EC3R 8AD, UK

    Maurizio Curtarelli

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Mandl, I., Curtarelli, M. (2017). Crowd Employment and ICT-Based Mobile Work—New Employment Forms in Europe. In: Meil, P., Kirov, V. (eds) Policy Implications of Virtual Work. Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52057-5_3

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