The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work and at the same time, platform work is being increasingly associated with difficult working conditions, health and safety risks, and inadequate levels of income for those that rely on it as a source of living. This podcast episode will shed light on some of the key insights from the second wave of the Internet and Platform work survey conducted in fourteen EU countries in Spring 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to ETIY Podcast, Voices on the World of Work. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Bianca Luna Fabrus, and in this episode we will be focusing on the finding stemming from our Internet and Platform Work Survey. |
| 0:15.0 | I have the pleasure of having with me today two of the authors, Janrakopuli and Vauders Fiesen. |
| 0:21.3 | In the show notes, you'll be able to find the publication that is stemming from the survey |
| 0:26.6 | that has been co-written by two of our guests together with Ayeska Piazna. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi to you both and welcome, and perhaps you would like to start with a very simple question. |
| 0:36.2 | So what is this survey? What is it about? And I don't know Fowder you would like to start with a very simple question. So what is this survey? |
| 0:37.7 | What is it about? |
| 0:38.6 | And I don't know Fowder you would like to jump in first. |
| 0:42.3 | Yes, I'd be very happy to. |
| 0:43.8 | Thanks very much for having us over to speak on this new survey. |
| 0:48.4 | So in the survey, it started with the first wave. |
| 0:52.0 | And it's the first attempt to really take a fully random sample |
| 0:55.5 | of European working age people and look at what the prevalence is of in the network |
| 1:01.7 | and platform work across Europe. So we go much into technical detail in the paper about why it's |
| 1:07.6 | necessary to do the survey the way we do it. But the main reason for the way we do it, survey and why this is important, |
| 1:14.2 | and we are able to do that method, |
| 1:16.2 | get a really good idea of how extensive the spread of Internet and platform work is across Europe, |
| 1:22.0 | and then who does this type of work, |
| 1:23.8 | which is important because it's been a lot in the news, |
| 1:26.2 | and there's a lot of debate, and actually a lot of the time we're guessing important because it's been a lot in the news and there's a lot of a debate. |
| 1:28.2 | And actually, a lot of the time we're guessing just how impactful it is, how many people |
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