Regulatory Developments in the Gig Economy: A Literature Review

Abstract

The emergence of the gig economy and its rapid growth was anticipated to play a big part in its economy. Despite the enormous benefits, the gig economy business model had also attracted numerous issues in many countries and regions. The research utilized a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) methodology by Snyder for analyzing regulation issues in the gig economy, which was divided into six steps, those were defining the central question, determining databases, using search string to find relevant keywords, extracting data, filtering data, and analyzing the findings to answer to the main question. The SLR results show licensing and misclassifications are the most dominant factors in gig economy, while regulatory issues such as safety, tax, externalities, wage, benefit, privacy, and discrimination area are other factors in it. The most popular platform types that attract regulators are work on demand, asset rental, and crowd-work.

Socio‐technical issues in the platform‐mediated gig economy: A systematic literature review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

“…Using a SLR approach described by Busalim (2016) the abstract of each paper was coded for gig economy topics (the coding scheme is described below). Articles were excluded if they were purely conceptual or theoretical, primarily concerned with economic issues, for example, unemployment rates and the labor market (Huang et al, 2020), focused on legal and policy issues (Wardhana et al, 2020), for example, the issue of whether gig workers are employees or independent contractors, and that focused on psychological issues affecting gig workers (Crain et al, 2020), for example, mental health and emotional labor. These issues are not of interest here because they do not sit in the center of socio-technical interactions between gig workers and platforms.…”

“…Seghezzi et al (2021) review literature focused on on‐demand food delivery including perspectives of workers, customers, and restaurants, all of whom interact with various platforms. Shirolkar and Patil (2021) conduct a systematic review of sharing economy literature to uncover the major theoretical frameworks that are being used to analyze the sharing economy and what they call “collaborative consumption behavior.” Wardhana et al (2020) offer a systematic literature review of regulatory developments and issues in the gig economy. Zhu and Marjanovic (2021) review literature on platform cooperatives, an emerging organizational form in the gig economy.…”