Platform cooperatives and employment: An alternative for platform work

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No 2023/16, OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Platform cooperatives refer to cooperatives that are directly owned and managed by their members and that use websites and/or mobile apps to sell goods and/or services. They have emerged in large part as alternatives to digital labour platforms to promote better working conditions with evidence of significant growth in recent years.This paper provides an overview of employment in platform cooperatives and offers insights on their distinctive features. In particular, it provides i) insights on working conditions associated with such platforms; ii) an overview on the challenges they face in creating jobs as well as scaling up, developing and expanding their activity; and iii) policy recommendations and examples of policy actions that could help policy makers best support them to generate work opportunities and enhance job quality.This paper was produced as part of the OECD Global Action on Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems, funded by the European Union’s Foreign Partnership Instrument.

Keywords: cooperative; local development; non-profit; social and solidarity economy; social economy; social enterprise; social entrepreneurship; social innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 L33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-30
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