Die Rolle der Online-Arbeitsplattformen bei der Wegbereitung und Verhinderung von virtueller Schwarzarbeit

Baumann Sheron (), Eder Manuela (), Klotz Ute () and Sehrer Armin ()
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Baumann Sheron: Hochschule Luzern – Wirtschaft, Zentralstrasse 9, 6002 Luzern, Schweiz
Eder Manuela: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Werftestrasse 1, 6002 Luzern, Schweiz
Klotz Ute: Hochschule Luzern – Informatik, Campus Zug-Rotkreuz, Suurstoffi 1, 6343 Rotkreuz, Schweiz
Sehrer Armin: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Werftestrasse 1, 6002 Luzern, Schweiz

Arbeit, 2022, vol. 31, issue 4, 421-442

Abstract: The platform economy has seen a rapid growth in the recent past and enables well trained cloud workers to generate income by working online across national boundaries. They act as freelancers and are not necessarily picked up by national systems of income taxes or social security. By the intentional or unintentional failure to declare income and pay the corresponding contributions, cloud workers become guilty of undeclared work. This contribution investigates for a sample of 47 international platforms if and how contracting cloud workers receive support in complying with tax and social security regulations of their home countries. While numerous platforms try to counter undeclared work, about 40 percent of them do not make any recognizable efforts in this respect.

Keywords: undeclared work; online labor platforms; platform economy; cloud work; platform work; Schwarzarbeit; Crowdworking-Plattformen; Plattformökonomie; Cloudwork; Plattformarbeit; undeclared work; online labor platforms; platform economy; cloud work; platform work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2022-0024

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