Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Labour transitions that lead to platform work: Towards increased formality? Evidence from Argentina
Number: faa6161e-8fc7-4564-9732-0a780b38d5fb
Handle: RePEc:avg:wpaper:en13696
Publication-Status: Published in Research Papers
Author-Name: Cecilia POGGI
Author-Name: Sonia FILIPETTO
Author-Name: Ariela MICHA
Author-Name: Francisca PEREYRA
Author-Name: Martín TROMBETTA
Abstract: The recent growth of the platform economy as a tool for labour exchanges has brought about concerns on the overall quality of jobs created. As labour platforms leave a digital trace, this paper assesses whether platforms can help to increase registered labour in contexts of extended informality as the one for Argentina, asking what does formalization via registration - if any - actually imply for workers and how do they perceive it. The article inspects three on-demand occupations in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area:  private passengers’ transportation (Uber), domestic work (Zolvers) and home repair services (Home Solution). The main results show that platforms “formalization effect” is dependent on several factors: a platform’s business model, or the company’s interest and need to promote or encourage such process; the pre-existing occupational dynamics in terms of formalization; and general labour market conditions. In the context of an Argentine labour market harmed by a prolongued recession, most transitions to formality via the platform occur to previously unemployed workers who join them. 
Creation-Date: 2022-02-25
File-URL: https://www.afd.fr/sites/afd/files/2022-03-07-39-12/Labour-transitions-that-lead-to-platform-work-Argentina.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Keywords: Argentine
Classification-JEL: Q
Length: 39