Social networks and resilience in emerging labor markets

Paola Tubaro ()
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Paola Tubaro: CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information [Bruz] - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENSAE - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique, IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, TAU - TAckling the Underspecified - LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - CentraleSupélec - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Inria de l'Université Paris-Saclay - Centre Inria de Saclay - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

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Abstract: The recent emergence of digital platforms as labor market intermediaries disrupts collective work practices, fostering fragmentation and individualized subcontracting. In these environments where isolation dominates, how do social networks operate, and how do they support social resilience? And how can we, as researchers, apprehend them? To address these questions, this chapter reviews insights from socioeconomic studies of networks, discusses their applicability to platforms, compares and contrasts them to existing evidence on platform work. The analysis confirms that overall, technologyenabled platform intermediation restrains sociability and limits interactions, but specific cases where networking has been possible highlight the fundamental advantages it may have for workers, and suggest directions for future research and policy action.

Keywords: Labor markets; digital platforms; decent work; economic networks; formal/informal networks; multi-level networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-net, nep-pay, nep-soc and nep-ure
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Published in E. Lazega, T.A.B. Snijders, R. Wittek. A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience, Edward Elgar, pp.45-57, 2022, 978 1 80392 577 6

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